Skylab for gold
A piece of debris from the American spacecraft Skylab has been exchanged for a Ikg gold bar in Hong Kong and will be minted into 100.000 coins to go on sale et $5O each to raise money for Vietnamese refugees. An Australian magazine distributor representing three Australian farmers, exchanped the T-shaped metal for the SUS 10,000 worth of gold with an international currency dealer, Deak and Company. —Hong Kong.
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Press, 2 August 1979, Page 21
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72Skylab for gold Press, 2 August 1979, Page 21
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