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23 1969

DECIMAL CURRENCY ACT, 1969

FIRST SCHEDULE

Particulars of Cupro-nickel and Bronze Coins

Section 3 .

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

Remedy Allowance

Denomination of Coin

Standard Weight (grams)

Standard Composition

Weight (grams)—applicable to the average weight of a coin in a sample of not more than one kilogram of the coin in question

Composition

Cupro-nickel Coins

Fifty new pence

13.50000

}

75 per cent. copper, 25 per cent. nickel

0.0800

1 per cent.

Ten new pence

11.31036

0.0646

2 per cent.

Five new pence

5.65518

0.0375

2 per cent.

Bronze Coins

Two new pence

7.12800

}

Mixed metal made up of copper, tin and zinc

0.1500

New penny

3.56400

0.0750

New halfpenny

1.78200

0.0375