I found a bank and look what was in it!!!!!!!

[Ken from Atlanta]

On my way to an old school yard today, I saw 2 vacant lots, and decided to put off the school for later. The first lot was a complete bust, nothing but nails and can shreds, the second was a completely different story! I found this bank in a corner of the old yard, about 10" down, I thought at first it was just an old can, because all I could see was the rusty bottom, but then I pulled it out, and I'll let the pics tell the rest!!! The tag reads "WASHINGTON MUTUAL SAVINGS BANK C-0879 SEATTLE WASH"

When I got it home and cleaned it up, I could hear the coins rattling inside, I popped the bottom off and found 3 silver dimes, a 46 and 54 Rosie, and a 44 merc, 2 wheats 41 and 47, and a '40 nickel.

The coins cleaned off great, I think because there was no dirt in the bank. Not sure if this counts as a "cache" but it really got me going!!! I'm headed back tomorrow!

 

[goldie1959]

hey great find. a child playing pirate and treasures hid it. a peewee cache? haha

 

[Moonshadow]

WOW! That is an awesome find! The coins date the bank for sure! Looks great for being in the dang ground for sixty years! WTG!

 

[Dan W Wa.]

That's too cool Ken.
Hmm, would that be considered a cache?

Dan

 

[River Rat]

WOW! That is an awesome find! The coins date the bank for sure! Looks great for being in the dang ground for sixty years! WTG!

Moon said it all...Congrats, Ken. Gotta be more there, search it good.

RR

 

[Natman]

What a great find! When you said "all I could see was the rusty bottom" are you saying the bank was upside down in the ground? I don't think the slot is big enough for any coins to slip out, but you may want to re-check the hole (if you didn't already) just in case! Man I'd go back and search that area like crazy after that!

That place has some history..hope you find more of the same the next time!

Nat

 

[Pepper2004]

Cool! What did you clean them with? WTG

HH,
Pepper

 

[Cynangyl]

Too cool! A mini cache with beautiful coins in it! I would be doing a happy dance after finding that one for sure!

 

[Ken from Atlanta]

I rechecked the hole and pounded the area 4 or 5 feet in each direction....but I don't think there were any more coins there, I did find a couple bullets in the area though, I'm definately going to tear that place up tomorrow though, there's still a good third of the lot I didn't even get to. Here's the bullet parts they are 348 winchester.

 

[tabfinder]

That's too cool Ken.
Hmm, would that be considered a cache?

No...not a cache....A BANK ROBBERY....LOL

 

[Michiganne]

Sweet find! I'd call it a cache.

HH

 

[billybobber57]

How about that Ace 150 eh? Great find !!!

 

[Newguy]

7301 Branbury Way
Sacramento, CA. 95828

Cut through the driveway on the rightside of the house bout right at the garage side door, dig down about 24" and you'll find a womans nylon with about $20.00 in silver quarter/dimes and wheat pennies...me and my brother buried it there in 1969..went to gradmas house for that summer, came back an my dad had poured a new RV driveway over our "cache" making it inaccessible to us 9 and 11 year olds. Another lost "peewee" cache lol.

 

[Cynangyl]

bah! my peewee cache was stashed in the back of a recliner chair in my grandparent's formal living room where no one ever went except special occasions.....a quart jar full of peewee cache....went away for a bit and came back and the chair was gone! Grandpa found a better one and hauled that old chair off to the dump!

 

[MUD(S.W.A.T)]

Yea thats a cache, WTG !!

Keep @ it and HH!!

 

[Magic Fingers]

Goodness when I was first reading your post .....I thought you unearthed a "bank"....not a coin bank....lol.
I need to learn all the real terms here still.

It is still an excellent find...congrats

 

[JARMAN]

Very cool Ken, wonder how long the kid of the 50's searched for that. Plenty of candy and a soda. Good luck on your return. HH

 

[whitesPA]

nice find

 

[Ken from Atlanta]

Well I went back today, and spent about 3 hours on that site, and came up with nothing more than a couple new pennies, and a lot of junk. Hit the tot lot on the way home for about an hour and got nearly $5 in clad though, so not too bad of a day.


Just counted it all up, and it came out to $4.45, which is 15 cents more than I spent on new batteries this morning. So I made a profit!

 

[I_Dig_NYC]

Goodness when I was first reading your post .....I thought you unearthed a "bank"....not a coin bank....lol.
I need to learn all the real terms here still.

It is still an excellent find...congrats

Funny, I thought you meant that you 'WENT TO' a bank and made a find..