FOUND COIN COLLECTION
Attic Searched By Youths (N.Z. Press Association) WANGANUI, Dec. 4. Two youths fossicking around a deserted house in Wanganui found a collection of coins worth £224 5s 2id. The youths, Leslie Gilsenan and James Henderson, handed the coins to the police, who have since returned them to their owner. The coins—New Zealand. English and Australian, some of them fairly rare—are part of a collection estimated at a value of some £6OO. The boys took some £5 worth they found in the attic to the central police station to report the find. Detectives who went to the house found hundreds of coins stored in tins in two wooden boxes. A tally revealed £79 worth of half-crowns, £79 in florins, £3O in shillings, £l3 4s in sixpences, £9 12s in threepences and the remainder in copper coin. Police traced the owner in Wellington and he returned to Wanganui on Friday to collect the coins.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31234, 5 December 1966, Page 15
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