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City38
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 Posted - 10/15/2009 : 18:28:59
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Hello all! I have been lurking for some time...great forum. I am a diehard silver nut, thanks to my dad showing me the diff. between pre64 and "sandwich" coins. Im remodeling my 50 year old house and hoping to find silver in a wall or floor joist... Anybody have a story of finding siver in an odd place?
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Kurr
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dakota1955
1000+ Penny Miser Member
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Posted - 10/15/2009 : 18:43:26
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| Glad that came out from lurking. Hope to hear from you often. |
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Mcprice302
Penny Collector Member
USA
404 Posts |
Posted - 10/15/2009 : 19:05:39
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| Howdy, older cars are a good place to look too. |
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Bluegill
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1964 Posts |
Posted - 10/16/2009 : 07:28:06
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City38
Penny Sorter Member
62 Posts |
Posted - 10/17/2009 : 02:12:13
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| Where did you find the bag of pennies kurr? |
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Posted - 10/17/2009 : 22:49:12
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| I had a dream last night, and in it, I found about a dozen Barber quarters. |
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HoardCopperByTheTon
Administrator
USA
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Posted - 10/18/2009 : 00:30:28
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If they were really slick.. they were mine.  |
If your percentages are low.. just sort more. If your percentages are high.. just sort more.
Now selling Copper pennies. 1.6x plus shipping. Limited amounts available. |
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PennySaved
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
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Posted - 10/18/2009 : 01:02:59
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| Ive thought about that too. I have a 1957 house so there are probably old coins lurking somewhere. Where would you look without tearing up your house too much? |
SELLING COPPER PENNIES 1.4X FACE SHIPPED......“I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principles of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale” Thomas Jefferson |
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daviscfad
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
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Posted - 10/18/2009 : 01:05:11
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zerocd
Penny Hoarding Member
555 Posts |
Posted - 10/18/2009 : 06:18:45
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I found 50oz JM bar in the basement rafters of an old house during major renovation construction many years ago. 20 years later, I started collecting silver for other than numi reasons.
It has a serial number but I never tried to pursue that.
Someones stash from long ago and long forgotten.
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1945V
Penny Pincher Member
Canada
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Posted - 10/18/2009 : 12:13:41
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A good place to check is outside your home on the surrounding land with a metal detector.
I found several dollars worth of mostly post-1970 coins, but no silver unfortunately.
My best find was a 1920 large Canadian cent and a Meccano UK Dinky car (no wheels but most of the original blue paint) that looked like it dated back to the 1930's |
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country_bumpkin
Penny Sorter Member
USA
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Posted - 10/19/2009 : 14:35:13
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Originally posted by PennySaved
Ive thought about that too. I have a 1957 house so there are probably old coins lurking somewhere. Where would you look without tearing up your house too much?
Check cold air returns for your heating/cooling system. Kids like to stick things into them. Pop off the grate and take a look with a light and mirror. A neighbor found a perfect 50's baseball card worth a hundred or so bucks.
Of course, you might have radiators. |
“He who goes a-borrowing, goes a-sorrowing.”
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slickeast
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
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Posted - 10/19/2009 : 14:53:49
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My house dates back to 1902. That is what the records show. Might be a year or two older. I have yet to find anything exciting. I do know that the front yard was raised 8 inches or more. When we tore out the old sidewalk to have a new one poured, I found a perfectly good sidewalk about 8 inches below ground. The old one was thin and had pavers under it. While shoveling out the bricks and broken concrete I hit the old sidewalk. My guess is that our road was once paved with pavers and when they put down asphalt and put in sidewalks they filled in everyones front yard. So that would mean all the silver dollars or old stuff is buried at least 8 inches. My metal detector is not the greatest at those depths.
Maybe one day I will find something exciting in a wall. |
You don't have to be the BEST you just have to be.......SLICK
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Mike
Penny Sorter Member
USA
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Posted - 10/20/2009 : 20:29:10
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| Back in the 70s my mother took a continuing education course in furniture upholstery. She bough an old easy chair at a thrift shop for five bucks, and found about $3.50 in 90% silver coins when she tore out the old upholstery. |
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Jefferson
Penny Pincher Member
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Posted - 10/20/2009 : 22:48:29
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I second the metal detector comments. In the front yard of our 1950s house, I have found 3 silver Roos, two bus tokens, and a dozen or so wheats, my favorite being a dark green 1925 S. Check especially carefully near the edges of the sidewalk, that seems to be where most of the coins and all of the silvers seem to be.
The neighborhood is probably about 30 to 40 years older, so I plan on checking under all of the sidewalk slabs sometime. The one I did check under yielded nothing.
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"Specie is the most perfect medium because it will preserve its own level; because, having intrinsic and universal value, it can never die in our hands, and it is the surest resource of reliance in time of war." -Thomas Jefferson
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City38
Penny Sorter Member
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Posted - 10/21/2009 : 22:23:56
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| Hey folks. I am still looking but nothing so far. I would like to do the detector thing, but dont know about such things. I guess if we could identify where coins were frequently used pre64 and then search there...but i wasnt around then. Any clues? |
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Mikep2020
Penny Collector Member
USA
402 Posts |
Posted - 10/22/2009 : 08:42:18
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I had a dream last night, and in it, I found about a dozen Barber quarters.
I actually had a dream last night that I went to this really old bank in an old back woods small town and asked for half dollars, and the teller went to the back and brought out this really dusty deteriorated box of halves and said "This is the last one". I took it home, opened it up and roll after roll was solid silver barbers and walking liberties, it was a solid 90% silver box and every coin was older than 1945 and there was not even a single franklin in the box. Found many key dates in AU/MS condition. I was so excited in my dream that it woke me right up, then I was disappointed. |
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City38
Penny Sorter Member
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Posted - 10/22/2009 : 21:53:40
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| Strange. I had a dream where I found a bunch of mercury dimes...they were under the kitchen cupboard. Does the fact that we have dreams of silver mean we obsess about it? Do I need help? |
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keys
Penny Collector Member
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Posted - 11/04/2009 : 17:53:55
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"Anybody have a story of finding siver in an odd place?"
It is not odd but was unexpected-
After a really heavy rainstorm I decided to go for a walk. I kept my eyes to the ground so I would avoid some of the deeper puddles and spotted a coin along the grass along the sidewalk. I picked it up and as I walked on I decided to check the date, which turned out to be a dime dated 1955.
That was an odd and unexpected find.
"I would like to do the detector thing, but dont know about such things. I guess if we could identify where coins were frequently used pre64 and then search there...but i wasnt around then. Any clues?"
Take a look in the backyard and try to imagine where the closeline once was. Coins were sometimes left in pockets and then fell out into the grass when the pants or shirts were hung out to dry.
check along the edge of the house, sometimes housewives would work on the flower or herb garden near the house and would accidently drop coins or intentionally hide things of value.
Any old fencing on the property? Banks were trustworthy back in 1950's but post hole banks were more so. Post hole banks were mason jars filled with coins or bills and hidden under a post to be retrieved by its owner at a later date. Look for any post that seems taller than the rest, has a nail or other unique marking or carving on it. Who knows? Maybe the original owner had a dislike of banks, maybe lost everyting in the 1930's and feared a repeat in the future.
Kids and coins- kids back then sometimes played pirate or bandit and would bury coins under trees to dig up later, sometimes they did, sometimes they forgot and the coins are still there.
Your metal detector doesn't go that deep/you don't have one? Make a metal detectorists dream come true, advertise for someone who has a detector to search your property.
You will have to make up a simple written agreement stating that the metal detectorist will fill in all holes, not make a mess, and agrees to an even split of the value of any valuables found(50% is better than none, and the metal detectorist does the searching, hard work and digging while you reap part of the rewards.)
Don't just think coins = treasure, as country_bumpkin mentioned concerning the baseball card, there may be treasures that are overlooked waiting to be found (stamps, candlesticks, post cards, old kitchen utensils, tokens, etc.)
Trash sometimes turns into treasure if you can find the right buyer (eBay springs to mind, if you don't want to sell through eBay at least get an idea of prices.)
Good luck in your treasure hunt! |
I change with the times-
but like silver coins found in your change
I stay the same.
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Will The United States of America end up as the New Imperial Rome? |
Edited by - keys on 11/04/2009 18:01:53 |
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City38
Penny Sorter Member
62 Posts |
Posted - 11/04/2009 : 20:59:10
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| Thanks for the tips Keys...still looking! |
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Dumpster Diver
Penny Collector Member
USA
474 Posts |
Posted - 11/04/2009 : 21:11:32
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Like keys said...Be sure to hunt around old trees thoroughly. Look for signs were old rope swings may have been...almost always great coin finds around there.
Also like Jefferson said, check the edges of any old driveways, walkways or sidewalks. Even near the road where mailboxes may have been. Anywhere people fumbled with keys/pockets = coins.
One more- I've dug a lot of old coins on steep grassy slopes where kids tumbled around. If you can find hills where sledding is popular, it's probably been popular for a long time...
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Edited by - Dumpster Diver on 11/04/2009 21:13:22 |
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feirefiz
Penny Sorter Member
Canada
62 Posts |
Posted - 11/04/2009 : 21:22:34
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| if you ever travel and are feeling mischevious , my uncle says tourist fountains and moats in france are loaded with silver currency of all types and i could imagine any type of vintage wishing wells in your area holding some old coins, there is a public garden/park in town and i used to pocket all the change as a kid, my father still has some of the old coins i found about 12years ago |
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Farmall
Penny Pincher Member
USA
112 Posts |
Posted - 11/07/2009 : 21:46:46
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| If you can find out where traveling carnivals would set up would be a good place to metal detect. |
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Lemon Thrower
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
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Posted - 11/08/2009 : 07:06:19
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| went to the bank yesterday to get halves and ikes - struck out - but my 6 year old found $20 dollar bill on the ground in the free coffee area. now that was unexpected. the kid is always finding money on the ground - usually pennies or dimes - but he's been doing this for so long that we've been calling him the money magnet for a long time now. |
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mickeyman
Penny Pincher Member
Canada
243 Posts |
Posted - 11/08/2009 : 10:38:54
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| I haven't found anything, but a close friend of mine bought a 5 oz gold bar last year from an acquaintance who claims he found it in the attic crawl space during a renovation. |
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