strongbox

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The company has now announced the £B will be "exiting circulation" and is encouraging those "who still have notes sitting around the house in draws, or behind tills in strongboxes" to return them.

From BBC • Jul. 4, 2021

The earliest of the manuscripts, dating from the dark ages of Europe, had been strongboxes of Christian culture.

From Time Magazine Archive

Desks and strongboxes were rifled; but the two large safes in the basement proved too much for the police.

From Time Magazine Archive

Later he switched to strongboxes, and before long his safes, with bulls' heads and baskets of fish painted on the doors, were standard equipment in most butchers' and fish dealers' shops.

From Time Magazine Archive

What mattered to them was that the strongboxes and mason jars under their beds, in which they now kept what remained of their life savings, were often perilously close to empty.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown