Old Coins Found
(N.Z. Press Association)
HAMILTON, May 20, Two University of Auckland students, hitch-hiking from Auckland to Coromandel, have found a large quan-i tity of old foreign and New? Zealand coins on the side of the road near Pokeno. • The money, found near an old church close to the junction of the Pokeno road and State Highway 2, was handed in to the Thames police. The police said today that 667 coins were handed in, including New Zealand pennies, half-pennies and threei pences. There were also a • number of coins from the I United States, Australia, Malaya, New Caledonia, Singapore, Hong Kong and I Portugal.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32303, 22 May 1970, Page 9
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