FAMOUS COLLECTION OF BANKNOTES STOLEN
(Received 23f 11.45 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 22, . Ths famons Avonmore colectioa of banknotes contained in 110 leather-bound volmnes, claimed aa the world 's most representative, worth £50,000, was stolen from tha home of the owner, Mr Trederick Catling, of Kensington. The thievea forced a steel safe, The collection, which has a face value of £6,000,000,000, included four Chinese notes over a thousand years old. Altogether there were 40,000 specimens which took half a ' century to assemble.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 212, 23 September 1937, Page 5
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81FAMOUS COLLECTION OF BANKNOTES STOLEN Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 212, 23 September 1937, Page 5
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