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oroplata  
Posted : Saturday, 18 August 2012 1:00:40 PM(UTC)
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Was talking to a guy at my kids football game. He said about 30 years ago his parents dug up an old chicken coop in their back yard (Office rd, CHCH) in order to put a garage in and up came a jar full of sovereigns.

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Posted : Saturday, 18 August 2012 1:36:57 PM(UTC)
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I have no qualms about digging up my backyard! Old house built in 1920's but Woolston not merivale lol
There's another to find and I'm gunna find it!
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Posted : Saturday, 18 August 2012 2:01:44 PM(UTC)
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Originally Posted by: Foiled again Go to Quoted Post
I have no qualms about digging up my backyard! Old house built in 1920's but Woolston not merivale lol


<<<Ditto>>>.........but Spreydon. Did get the silver pocketwatch out from under the back lawn tho.......so keep diggin foiled again, you just never know.
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Lammerlaw  
Posted : Saturday, 18 August 2012 6:46:05 PM(UTC)
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Great stuff - thats the sort of story we all like to hear...and also like to dream of finding. It is very logical that many such hoards exist as there were few banks in the early pioneer days and then later because of the banks collapsing in the 1890s I think it was people began to distrust banks and preferred to hide their money - in the case of my Great grandmother who mum said was a gypsy woman she had a shoe box full of sovereigns under the bed.

Their are quite a few actual hoards which are actually known to exist but where exactly? If we knew that they would have been retrieved by now!

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Posted : Saturday, 18 August 2012 6:53:58 PM(UTC)
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Yes indeed,currently looking for sovereign number 3,they are out there,i,ll just keep searching.
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Posted : Sunday, 19 August 2012 8:28:23 PM(UTC)
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Would be a nightmare doing my backyard (also in Woolston) as its reclaimed swamp land. The garden is full of old refuse.
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