Likely Guy
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Okay, this doesn’t happen every day, a friend of mine found a cache of uncirculated silver coins.
First off, I’d like to say that I haven’t posted for a while (though I have been lurking) but this find compels me to post this and share it with the T’Net community. I must reiterate that, I did not find this, I watched a buddy bring it to me, day after day.
It all started about a week ago when my friend, Robin, decided to root through an outbuilding on his property (he moved there about three years ago). I must also note, that he’s been a bottle digger from childhood and let me say, he is a true ‘treasure nut’. One building in particular was an old chicken coup/shed, with its’ caved in roof and from outward appearances was full of rotting magazines/papers, household bric-a-brac and rusty tools all covered in a thick layer of rotting leaves (and, I must add, frozen in a giant slab of ice.). Robin was originally interested in a couple of old frozen/rusted McCullough chainsaws. After a couple of days of digging ‘interesting stuff’ it then got really weird.
At first he found a few stamp albums (which were mostly empty or hopelessly fused together) though one did have a bunch of Canadian stamps dating back to the Queen Victoria/King George era which compelled him to dig further. (Stamp fans, if you want, I’ll post later). Two days later he found a very rough set of 10 sequential 1954 series Canadian dollar bills…
There’s other stuff, but to keep this story semi-brief, we’ll stick to the coins which came up in ‘frozen slabs’ which Robin separated, day after day, whilst breathing in the ‘black mould’.
My stupidly lucky friend (no green eyed monster there!) started finding rotten cases of silver coins.
So far, he’s found (keeping in mind, almost all are uncirculated, only some are slightly tarnished and only the lower denominations are in poor shape - also that, understandably, there are no “original cases with the certificate of authenticity” sets.)
Canada
2 - 1975 Voyageur Dollars
2 - 1975 Commemorative Calgary Stampede Dollars
6 - 1974 Commemorative City of Winnipeg Dollars
2 - 1973 Commemorative Prince Edward Island Dollars
2 - 1973 Commemorative RCMP Dollars
6 - 1972 Voyageur Dollars
1 - 1971 Commemorative British Columbia Dollar
Plus 4 sets of half dollar, quarter, dime, nickel, penny (1972 to 1975).
Iceland
1 - 1974, 1100 year Commemorative 1000 Kronur
1 - 1974, 1100 year Commemorative 500 Kronur
Panama
3 - (1972, ‘73, ‘74) 20 Balboas
2 - sets 1, 1/2,1/4 Balboas, 10,5,1 centisimos (1973, ‘74)
1 - 1972 5 Balboas
1 - 1953 1 Balboa
3 - 1947 1 Balboa
2 - 1953 1/2 Balboa
2 - 1962 1/4 Balboa
1 - 1953 1/4 Balboa
Bahamas
3 - 1972 Two Dollar Flamingo’s
1 - 1973 Two Dollar Flamingo
1 - 1974 Two Dollar Flamingo
Cayman Islands
1 - 1972 $25 Royal Wedding Commemorative...
Okay. We just stop there, because we all know that everyone wants pictures and I have none. I trust that a friend who took them this afternoon will post them now... (drumroll?...)
First off, I’d like to say that I haven’t posted for a while (though I have been lurking) but this find compels me to post this and share it with the T’Net community. I must reiterate that, I did not find this, I watched a buddy bring it to me, day after day.
It all started about a week ago when my friend, Robin, decided to root through an outbuilding on his property (he moved there about three years ago). I must also note, that he’s been a bottle digger from childhood and let me say, he is a true ‘treasure nut’. One building in particular was an old chicken coup/shed, with its’ caved in roof and from outward appearances was full of rotting magazines/papers, household bric-a-brac and rusty tools all covered in a thick layer of rotting leaves (and, I must add, frozen in a giant slab of ice.). Robin was originally interested in a couple of old frozen/rusted McCullough chainsaws. After a couple of days of digging ‘interesting stuff’ it then got really weird.
At first he found a few stamp albums (which were mostly empty or hopelessly fused together) though one did have a bunch of Canadian stamps dating back to the Queen Victoria/King George era which compelled him to dig further. (Stamp fans, if you want, I’ll post later). Two days later he found a very rough set of 10 sequential 1954 series Canadian dollar bills…
There’s other stuff, but to keep this story semi-brief, we’ll stick to the coins which came up in ‘frozen slabs’ which Robin separated, day after day, whilst breathing in the ‘black mould’.
My stupidly lucky friend (no green eyed monster there!) started finding rotten cases of silver coins.
So far, he’s found (keeping in mind, almost all are uncirculated, only some are slightly tarnished and only the lower denominations are in poor shape - also that, understandably, there are no “original cases with the certificate of authenticity” sets.)
Canada
2 - 1975 Voyageur Dollars
2 - 1975 Commemorative Calgary Stampede Dollars
6 - 1974 Commemorative City of Winnipeg Dollars
2 - 1973 Commemorative Prince Edward Island Dollars
2 - 1973 Commemorative RCMP Dollars
6 - 1972 Voyageur Dollars
1 - 1971 Commemorative British Columbia Dollar
Plus 4 sets of half dollar, quarter, dime, nickel, penny (1972 to 1975).
Iceland
1 - 1974, 1100 year Commemorative 1000 Kronur
1 - 1974, 1100 year Commemorative 500 Kronur
Panama
3 - (1972, ‘73, ‘74) 20 Balboas
2 - sets 1, 1/2,1/4 Balboas, 10,5,1 centisimos (1973, ‘74)
1 - 1972 5 Balboas
1 - 1953 1 Balboa
3 - 1947 1 Balboa
2 - 1953 1/2 Balboa
2 - 1962 1/4 Balboa
1 - 1953 1/4 Balboa
Bahamas
3 - 1972 Two Dollar Flamingo’s
1 - 1973 Two Dollar Flamingo
1 - 1974 Two Dollar Flamingo
Cayman Islands
1 - 1972 $25 Royal Wedding Commemorative...
Okay. We just stop there, because we all know that everyone wants pictures and I have none. I trust that a friend who took them this afternoon will post them now... (drumroll?...)
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that is one heck of a haul....
you just never know what is in those old out buildings ,a find of a lifetime ,my hunting partner found a old sealed mason jar full of IH penny's over 200 in a chicken coup 15 where key dates .Great find HH Dd60
