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Old cigar box some English and Canadian coins and stone points, helped a farmer.

Deepdiger60

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This morning early i was at the coffee shop where i meet a old buddy John he,s the one who has all those potato fields he was telling me in a 2 weeks he will be plowing up all the fields the taters are ready :hello2: and i can do more MD ,we got to talking about some heavy work he needs done putting drag chains behind the tractor and could i help him for a few hours hes 83 but tough as nails a old weather beaten 4 generation farmer all working the same fields for a few hundred years its 92 * now and the humility is awful >:( there was noway i could say no so i helped him man oh man in 15 minutes the both of us was a pool of sweat !!! those drag chains are heavy !!! anyway after we were done he said wait here and he went into one of the big barns and came out with a broken dirty old cigar box and said here its yours he don't remember where or when he got it its been in the barn for ever he said on a wooden work bench under all kinds of crap :laughing7: when i opened it i almost feel over old coins and Indian stone points ,then he said he thinks some feel out and are on the dirt floor still :laughing9: i was so tired and hot i said when it cools off ill come back and look .Hey you dont know how happy i was to get these i took some photos and made a list Enjoy HH :thumbsup: Dd60
All i did was rinse all the dirt off the coins and points with water .

2 English copper penny's 1930 1936
1 English copper half penny 1937
1 English silver 3 pence 1934
1 English silver 6 pence 1921
3 Canadian silver quarters 1889 1942 1960
1 Canadian silver dime 1919
1 Canadian silver 5 cents 1919
3 USA Filipinos coins, 1 silver 50 centavos 1945 1 20 centavos 1944 1 one centavos 1944
1 Netherlands zinc 5 cent square coin 1941
4 Indian Points John told me the black ones he thinks are from Connecticut the 2 white are local
1 1957B silver certificate dollar
 

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Re: Old cigar box some really nice old coins and stone points, helped a farmer.

That's an awesome box of stuff... Some great coins in there...
 
Re: Old cigar box some really nice old coins and stone points, helped a farmer.

Wow! :o It pays to help out a friend when asked.
Talk about being in the right place at the right time :notworthy:
 
Re: Old cigar box some really nice old coins and stone points, helped a farmer.

Excellent finds!
 
Re: Old cigar box some really nice old coins and stone points, helped a farmer.

Now those are some decent finds Jim!
I really like the points
 
Re: Old cigar box some really nice old coins and stone points, helped a farmer.

4-H said:
Now those are some decent finds Jim!
I really like the points
Not bad huh ? for a few hours helping John he told me he has all the good stuff locked up in safety deposit boxes arrow points from his granddad found in the early days not many people even collected them then .You know that show Pickers ? they would have a field day in Johns barns :laughing7: Jim
 

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