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Jars of Money

On the 23rd in Melbourne, two children playing with beach spades unearthed in the back-yard of a house a jar containing wads of currency notes. The city police who came soon went about systematically digging in the neighbourhood and were able to find other jars, buried about two feet below the surface, each of, which containing thousands of notes. Detectives believed the notes were a part of the 33,595 Australian Sterling army pay-roll money stolen from an armoured car in August 1952. "We pulled out a big jar full of funny green paper," one of the children said. Police estimated that their jar contained about eight hundred Australian pounds. Many thousands of pounds were found mostly in five and one pound denominations.

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