HOARDED SOVEREIGNS
DISCOVERY IN GARBAGE TIP. MELTING DOWN DISCOVERY. An unemployed resident of Liverpool, New South Wales, James Lamont, has for some months been supplementing the dole by the sale of solder, which he has melted from tins retrieved from the local garbage tip and dumps. After- melting several hundred tins one morning recently, he was astonished, . when examining the pan into which the solder dropped, to discover a heap of foreign matter. On closer examination the. hqap was discovered to. consist Of partly. melted sovereigns and . Sorins, minted at the lime of the official opening of the Federal capital. • Somebody had apparently discarded by accident a tin containing the hoard.
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Taranaki Daily News, 31 March 1934, Page 11
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111HOARDED SOVEREIGNS Taranaki Daily News, 31 March 1934, Page 11
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