007tallguy
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first i'll quickly say i found some little silver this afternoon, a 1965 dime to add to the "pile". found in the same area as my 1957 quarter last weekend.
ok, on to my most unusual find from today:
i found what i thought at first was several coins fused or melted together and at about 8-9 inches deep in a field behind 2 very old houses.
after i cleaned the dirt off, i realized from the color and the weight that it was a blob of lead. and strangely, there was what looked to be a "coin pattern" on one side of this blob.
cleaned it up a bit more when i got home and upon close examination, the pattern is that of a large cent, but the pattern is reversed.
i'm thinking what are the possibilities here..... someone was bored and impressed a coin on some hot lead? OR: did they have some l/c's sealed in this lead for some reason? has anyone out there ever heard of that being done? maybe as a way of hiding them or as part of a cache?
a large cent weighs 5.5 grams and this "blob" weighs in at 33.5 grams.
it's thick enough to possibly contain 3 more l/c's, if indeed there are any in there. there doesn't appear to be the edges of any cents visible around the outside edge of this lead, but it almost looks like there could be 2 or 3 of them stacked there in a slightly crookedly.
so.... who all would fire up the blow torch and check it out? as a blob of lead, it's not worth anything. it does have that reversed impression of a Canadian large cent, and from the female figure on it (Queen Victoria), that penny would have had a date range from 1879 to 1901.
any thoughts?
could it be as simple as they didn't have any paper coin rollers left?
Pete
ok, on to my most unusual find from today:
i found what i thought at first was several coins fused or melted together and at about 8-9 inches deep in a field behind 2 very old houses.
after i cleaned the dirt off, i realized from the color and the weight that it was a blob of lead. and strangely, there was what looked to be a "coin pattern" on one side of this blob.
cleaned it up a bit more when i got home and upon close examination, the pattern is that of a large cent, but the pattern is reversed.
i'm thinking what are the possibilities here..... someone was bored and impressed a coin on some hot lead? OR: did they have some l/c's sealed in this lead for some reason? has anyone out there ever heard of that being done? maybe as a way of hiding them or as part of a cache?
a large cent weighs 5.5 grams and this "blob" weighs in at 33.5 grams.
it's thick enough to possibly contain 3 more l/c's, if indeed there are any in there. there doesn't appear to be the edges of any cents visible around the outside edge of this lead, but it almost looks like there could be 2 or 3 of them stacked there in a slightly crookedly.
so.... who all would fire up the blow torch and check it out? as a blob of lead, it's not worth anything. it does have that reversed impression of a Canadian large cent, and from the female figure on it (Queen Victoria), that penny would have had a date range from 1879 to 1901.
any thoughts?
could it be as simple as they didn't have any paper coin rollers left?
Pete
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