BURIED GOLD
BACKYARD TREASURE MELBOURNE. March 20. While digging a hole in the back* yard of his home at Albert Street, Box Hill, Harry Fletcher, aged 17, yesterday found an old teapot containing £3OO in sovereigns and half-sovereigns. The coins, it is thought, were buried in thc yard under old stables 35 years ago by thc boy’s grandfather, William Fletcher, who died 19 years ago, leaving an estate worth £lO,OOO. The latest date on any ’of thc coins is 1893. Thc boy, who had never previously seen a sovereign, thought at first that they were old war medals and filled his hat with them-
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20110, 31 March 1928, Page 14 (Supplement)
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104BURIED GOLD Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20110, 31 March 1928, Page 14 (Supplement)
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