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SWAZILAND COINS STAND IN FOR POUNDSDavid Pickup and Hadrien Rambach forwarded this Daily Mail article about a London man who discovered that a Swaziland coin worth 5 pence was the same size and weight as
the one pound coin. NOTE: The Oyster card is for use in the transportation system; I had one during my time working on London in 2007, where I first met Hadrien. -Editor
A coin collector who swindled TfL after he realised Swaziland currency could be used to top up his Oyster card has been spared jail. David Drukarz, 64, used the African Iilangeni, which are roughly the same size and weight as £1 coins but worth just over 5p. It is believed he used the top-up trick on 54 different occasions between November 2016 and January this year.  He used the African Iilangeni (second from left, middle) which are roughly the same size and weight as £1 coins but worth just over 5p After topping up the card he would withdraw the money from the ticket office. He was caught in February when a plain clothes police officer saw him at a ticket machine at Wembley Park station with two Oyster cards. Police then searched his home and discovered 508 Swaziland coins, three bags of Israeli shekels and 22 Oyster cards hidden in the inside of his oven. To read the complete article, see: Wayne Homren, Editor The Numismatic Bibliomania Society is a non-profit organization promoting numismatic literature. See our web site at coinbooks.org. To submit items for publication in The E-Sylum, write to the Editor at this address: whomren@gmail.com To subscribe go to: https://my.binhost.com/lists/listinfo/esylum All Rights Reserved. NBS Home Page Contact the NBS webmaster 
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