§ MR. MONTAGUI beg to ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer the amount of pro-Victorian sovereigns and half-sovereigns sent into the Bank of England up to the end of February; and, whether he contemplates demonetising such coins which shall not have been sent in by the end of March?
§ MR. GOSCHENThe amount of pre-Victorian sovereigns and half-sovereigns received up to the end of February is:—Sovereigns, £1,500,000; half-sovereigns, £80,000. The answer to the second question is, yes.