HIDDEN GOLD COINS.
HOSPITAL FUND RAID.
AN INTERESTING SOVEREIGN
When paper money was introduced during the war many people in Britain concealed gold coins, which they still possess. Upon these hoards a "raid" is being made on behalf of the building fund for the extension of the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital in London.
The organiser of the "raid" is Mrs. Kimber, who has caused an appeal to bo sent out requesting that people who have gold coins should hand them to their bankers and have the amount credited to the hospital fund. On the Queen's visit to the hospital on May 8 to open the new wing she was to be handed a Bank of England gold bag containing vouchers representing the coin* handed in. It was hdped that upwards of £IO.OOO would be raised in this way. One of the most interesting coins given to the fund is a sovereign which was ono of six million sent from London on French account to Germany as part of the indemnity paid bv France after the FrancoPrussian War. The coin was received in London in the early days of the Great War as part of a shipment of gold via. Holland. The coins were in their original bags, which bore the labels' affixed ia 1872.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20254, 14 May 1929, Page 9
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214HIDDEN GOLD COINS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20254, 14 May 1929, Page 9
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