§ Sir C. OMANasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury (1) whether there is any prospect of the issue of nickel coinage to replace the inconveniently small threepenny-piece and the much-worn sixpence, by which issue it might be possible to rehabilitate the standard of the larger silver coinage;
(2) whether, in the case of the introduction of a new standard of coinage in regard to certain denominations, such as the threepenny and sixpenny pieces, opportunity will be found for a general reissue of the very unsatisfactory types serving for the reverses of the coins of the national currency?
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§ Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKSI am not at present in a position to make any statement on these matters.