A humorous eyeball cache...todays find

[deepskyal]

Lookie what I found today...right on top of the ground



Unfortunately, most seemed quite damaged....




But still....quite a worthless find of shiny coins.....

Al

 

[EDDE]

just to point out the mint will replace damaged money

 

[treasurefiend]

Are the aluminium tokens or what?

 

[deepskyal]

Okay......they are steel clad coins from Argentina. They were all minted in 1989, the only year they were minted because of spiriling inflation. They are 5 Bolivars pieces. They became obsolete the next year...

Where did I find them

On the floor of a steel mill.....being melted down as scrap.

I'll tell you...without my glasses...thought maybe I had found something really great. Was thinking maybe someone smuggled them in with something else and the bag fell loose.

I'll post the pics of the coins later today when I get home from work.

I sure would have loved to seen the entire shipment of them before they went to the furnace.....soo many they used a monster front end loader to scoop them up into the scrap bucket. I'm guessing a tractor trailer load or two.

Al

 

[Diggincoinz]

Interesting for sure, but why are they in Pittsburg?

 

[Jim 2.0]

Interesting for sure, but why are they in Pittsburg?

Steel city USA. The Pittsburg Steelers! Iron City Beer ect.

 

[Ohio Jerry]

Thanks for the fantasy Al..I bet your heart was racing when you first saw them? I'm a 30 year blast furnace man,retired "keeper" from the cast house, Weirton Steel. You work at a blast furnace or electric arc?
Jerry

 

[HolyDiver]

That's odd, but at least you picked up a few.

 

[allen]

to bad they wasnt silver dollars...

 

[Bavaria Mike]

So what are they? HH, Mike

 

[EDDE]

should have bought a bag and made jewelry

 

[davew0710]

Leave it to Al to make the big finds, lol. Why do those coins look a little warped? Is it my imagination or are my eyes acting up?

 

[silvercop]

thought they were silver there for a minute.......could not understand why you did not get them all....well congrats anyway on the steel

 

[deepskyal]

This were at the arc furnace....
5 venezuelen bolivars = 0.0023 U.S. dollars.

They are cupro-nickle cladding over steel. These were only minted in 1989...but like I said before...spiriling inflation there made them obsolete before the year ended.

How did they end up in Pittsburgh....good question....

They went into the furnace that makes stainless steel....so someday...that new stainless steel sink or fridge may be made of venezuelen money.
Here's the coin itself...

and where most of them ended up...

Al

 

[girardpaguy]

Still a good find dude!
W2G

 

[ivan salis]

so 1 of those 5 boliver coins are worth .23 cent us ? (less than 1/4th a cent each) thus 4 of 5 boliver coins was worth about 1 modern zinc cent)--- geez and here I thought zinc cents were worthless --- ---dats der is limbo money mon --(how low can you go?)

 

[pookie-princess of rust]

interesting.

 

[47thelement]

Is it me or does the dude on the coin look like he is pissed about being on a coin that is basically worthless?

 

[ivan salis]

nah that "dude" was POed all right but at the spanish -- as far as south america throwing off the yoke of spanish colonial rule in the early 1800's era -- simon boliver was the "george washington" --of south america

 

[goldie1959]

maybe since most were melted down and only minted one year wont someday be a collectors item

 

[rjw4law]

You never said what they read out as on your detector....inquiring minds need to know!