THOUSAND SOVEREIGNS
NOW WORTH OVER £l5OO. OLD MAN CLINGS TO HOARD. While hundreds of people in Australia ar£ rushing to sell their old sovereigns to take advantage of the ruling high prices, a 90-year-old Kangaroo Island esident. in South Australia, refuses to sell his hoard of 1000, al though they are worth more than £l5OO. The coins are buried in the man’s house. A buyer has been urging him to sell his treasure, but he refuses. He has no faith in paper money, and in anv case he is comfortably off. Dealers are still doing a brisk trade. One recently bought six individual parcels, each of between <4OO and 500 sovereigns. One woman in the country planted 80 sovereigns in her backyard many years ago. Now she cannot find them. Sovereigns are bringing 32s each today.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 42, 19 February 1932, Page 5
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136THOUSAND SOVEREIGNS Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 42, 19 February 1932, Page 5
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