Section 16. When any silver coin purporting to be coined and issued under the authority of the Government of Ind

16. When any silver coin purporting to be coined and issued under the authority of the Government of India is tendered to any officer authorized by the Governor General in Council or the Local Government to act under this section, who has reason to believe it to have lost, by reasonable wearing, more than two per cent. in weight, or to be counterfeit, or to have been reduced in weight otherwise than by reasonable wearing, or 1870.] Indian Coinage. 221 or to be called-in by any proclamation, he may, by himself or another, (subject to the rules which the Governor General in Council prescribes in this behalf), cut or break such coin.