Henry Ernest Dudeney/Puzzles and Curious Problems/16 - The Thrifty Grocer

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 * The Thrifty Grocer
 * A grocer in a small way of business had managed to put aside (apart from his legitimate profits) a little sum in $\pounds 1$ notes, $10 \shillings$ notes, and crowns,
 * which he kept in eight bags,
 * there being the same number of crowns and of each kind of note in each bag.
 * One night he decided to put the money into only seven bags, again with the same number of each kind of currency in every bag.
 * And the following night he further reduced the number of bags to six, again putting the same number of each kind of note and of crowns in every bag.
 * The next night the poor demented miser tried to do the same with five bags, but after hours of trial he utterly failed, had a fit, and died, greatly respected by his neighbours.
 * What is the smallest possible amount of money he had put aside?