Curious The George
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Granny's Hoard
As I mentioned in an earlier post about detecting a drive in theater site in SW Georgia we went down to visit my wife's mother for Thanksgiving.
After detecting the theater site I came back in the house and Grandma asked what I found. I proudly showed her the few pennies and dimes and pointed out that I had found a Mercury dime. She said, "Ain't that something." Then she said, "I have something that you might enjoy looking at". Now this lady is 84 years old now and I had no idea what she was talking about. I married into the family in 1974.
At any rate she went into the house and came back out with a small zipper case that a woman might keep make up items in and handed it to me. It was small but rather heavy. I un-zipped it and my chin dropped to my chest. Inside were 44 sliver dollars and an assortment of other smaller old coins.
Mr. Bob ran movie theaters and he worked the ticket window and Miss Rachel worked the snack bar. They did this four about 40 years, just after WWII until the mid 1980's. When they could they kept what she calls, "old money" when it came across the counter. This is what she has left from those days. I included close ups of the oldest dollars, 1884, 1893 and 1896. As well as close ups of the smaller coins.
In the conversation she said, "You know we paid for R--- with old money don't you." R--- is my wife. I said, "I don't understand what you mean." She said, "When R--- was born and we took her home from the hospital (this was 1948) we paid the bill with old money." There is no telling what kind of coins was given over to the hospital in that transaction. Wonder if I took her back................
As I mentioned in an earlier post about detecting a drive in theater site in SW Georgia we went down to visit my wife's mother for Thanksgiving.
After detecting the theater site I came back in the house and Grandma asked what I found. I proudly showed her the few pennies and dimes and pointed out that I had found a Mercury dime. She said, "Ain't that something." Then she said, "I have something that you might enjoy looking at". Now this lady is 84 years old now and I had no idea what she was talking about. I married into the family in 1974.
At any rate she went into the house and came back out with a small zipper case that a woman might keep make up items in and handed it to me. It was small but rather heavy. I un-zipped it and my chin dropped to my chest. Inside were 44 sliver dollars and an assortment of other smaller old coins.
Mr. Bob ran movie theaters and he worked the ticket window and Miss Rachel worked the snack bar. They did this four about 40 years, just after WWII until the mid 1980's. When they could they kept what she calls, "old money" when it came across the counter. This is what she has left from those days. I included close ups of the oldest dollars, 1884, 1893 and 1896. As well as close ups of the smaller coins.
In the conversation she said, "You know we paid for R--- with old money don't you." R--- is my wife. I said, "I don't understand what you mean." She said, "When R--- was born and we took her home from the hospital (this was 1948) we paid the bill with old money." There is no telling what kind of coins was given over to the hospital in that transaction. Wonder if I took her back................
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