The E-Sylum:  Volume 7, Number 37, September 12, 2004, Article 5

RARE GOLD NOBLES STOLEN

  Arthur Shippee forwarded a link to this story about the
  theft of some rare coins on loan from the British Museum:

  "SECURITY has been reviewed at Manchester Museum
  after three rare coins were stolen from a display case.

  The coins, known as "Nobles", were taken from the coin
  room at the Oxford Road museum, where they were on
  display as part of a collection on a15-year loan from the
  British Museum in London.

  Two coins have since been recovered and police have
  appealed for help in tracing the one still missing.

  The Nobles, which had been in Manchester for a year,
  were minted between 1445 and 1485 as gold bullion to be
  used as army payment during the Wars of the Roses."

  "The coins, which were taken from the museum during
  opening hours on August 5, are from a collection unearthed
  in Nottinghamshire in 1966 and form part of the Fishpool
  Collection."    Full Story

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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