Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 245, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1910 — NEW COINS CAUSE TROUBLE [ARTICLE]

NEW COINS CAUSE TROUBLE

George V. Is Not Pleased With Effigies on Money of His Father’s Reign. London. —New coinage* for King George’s reign is causing serious trouble. He has twice rejected designs submitted to him as too closely resembling those of his father, which he never liked, because they looked more like French than English coins. He is determined to have bis effigy thoroughly English. Bertram Mackennal, an Australian sculptor, who is designing the dies, having been largely trained in France, finds it difficult to free himself wholly from the influence of French art Another difficulty has cropped out In connection with India, where the uncrowned head of Edward VII. made the natives believe he was not the king of all. Then, again, Hong-Kong declares that the sovereign, with the aroup of St. George slaying the dragon is taken by Britain’s Chinese subjects as an insult to them, the dragon being emblematic of the Chinese empir e -