MILLIONS UNSOLD
CORONATION STAMPS TOTAL SALE?. 42.000,000 (By Telegraph.—Press Association) AUCKLAND, Friday Over 21.500,000 New Zealand penny Coronation stamps remained unsold when the stamps were withdrawn from circulation at the end of December and will have to be destroyed. The number of the stamps sold between Coronation Day May 12) and the end of the year was 42.099,661 as follows: Penny issue, 38.455.554; 24d issue. 1.564.4 96; Gd issue, 2,079,611. The numbers of stamps printed were Id, 60.000,000; 2 id, 2,000.000; 6d. 3,000.000.
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Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20422, 12 February 1938, Page 5
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83MILLIONS UNSOLD Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20422, 12 February 1938, Page 5
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