Would you tell 1700s guy he dropped a coin?

[bergie]

Would you tell 1700's guy he dropped a coin?

Was detecting an old site where I've found a couple of colonial coins and got to thinking how cool it would be to be able to go back and see how the person lost the coin. Then was thinking, would I tell them they dropped it if I could, knowing I wouldn't find it 200 + years later? Thoughts?

 

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[funkman]

Re: Would you tell 1700's guy he dropped a coin?

Not me....I would also bury my own cache of coins from that period

 

[Burdie]

Re: Would you tell 1700's guy he dropped a coin?

Heck no!!! Back then money was hard to come by. Besides we wouldn't be able to find any coins today. Burdie

 

[Sandman]

Re: Would you tell 1700's guy he dropped a coin?

If you went back and told the guy he dropped it, you wouldn't have found it to go back and tell him he dropped it. To think of all the silver coins I spent up to 1964.

 

[Arakronn]

Re: Would you tell 1700's guy he dropped a coin?

Careful....you don't want to disrupt the time/space continuum. Remember what Doc Brown told Marty?

 

[bakergeol]

Re: Would you tell 1700's guy he dropped a coin?

Actually the most interesting for me was detecting Civil War Battle sites for the first time. Digging up a fired Minnie and knowing exactly what date it was fired. Also you could tell from the character of the ball and it's position which side fired it. Just knowing the last person to touch it was over 100 years ago was always awesome to me. Did he survive or was he buried in the nearby mass grave?

I see the Archies were able to track movement of individual troopers on the Custer Battlefield site because they could ID the markings on individual casing. I guess each rifle had a different strike pattern.

George

 

[abrakdabra]

Re: Would you tell 1700's guy he dropped a coin?

Above a poster wrote, 'back then money was hard to come by'. I heard that people
are nine times richer, in general, than those who lived in 1500.

 

[Ramapirate]

Re: Would you tell 1700's guy he dropped a coin?

Wouldn't you like to take a years salary from now and go back to the 1800's and buy up coins (gold and silver key dates) bury them in a really safe spot and now go dig them up. Do a little Back to the Future TH'ing.

 

[DugHoles]

Re: Would you tell 1700's guy he dropped a coin?

I'd just like to travel back in time really.........

GL & HH,

DugHoles

 

[Monty]

Re: Would you tell 1700's guy he dropped a coin?

Sounds cool, but with my luck every darn one I buried would be under a shopping mall nowdays! Monty

 

[treasurekidd]

Re: Would you tell 1700's guy he dropped a coin?

If I could go back in time, I'd go back to yesterday and buy the winning Powerball ticket, and then come right back to today. But the 1700s and 1800s would be cool to visit too.