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Message:: [QUOTE="Yahya, post: 548328, member: 15639"]John, Thanks for your reply, and the details on the "extinction events". If the UK needed to send a lot of gold to the US to pay for war materiel, it's certainly possible that Australia did something similar on a smaller scale.  Two factors might have increased that scale after WWI beyond what might be supposed for our small population.  First, as Trust Administrator (whatever the correct term may be) for Papua-New Guinea, Australia would have been responsible for its defence as well as its own.  Second, Australian territory - per capita - is huge; something like the area of the lower 48 (contiguous states of the USA), with maybe 5% of the population. However, you'd think that such an "extinction" would be well documented, wouldn't you? Nice piece of luck with your 1899 Perth sovereign!  Perhaps I'd better start rolling over some bullion and see what turns up?  Might start a trend, like the coin roll searchers in the US?[/QUOTE]