FORTUNE FOUND.
WORKMAN’S LUCKY STRIKE A fortune hidden for 600 years, has been found by a man working on an Aberdeen housing scheme. The find consists of 194 coins mainly silver pennies of King Henry 111 period and estimated to be worth about £IOOO.
While a. workman, Robert Livingstone, of Newton, of Dunecht, was digging his pick into the ground, it hit an earthenware vessel, It was broken, but inside Livingstone found coins. The Aberdeen University Librarian (Dr W. Douglas Simpson) identified them. They probably belonged to some thrifty Aberdonian of six centuries ago, who buried his money for safety.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 86, 21 January 1938, Page 7
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100FORTUNE FOUND. Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 86, 21 January 1938, Page 7
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