UnderMiner
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Came across piles of garbage bags tossed in the woods of my local park the other day. Probably dumped by house renovators or an angry landlord. Initially sparked my curiosity because I could see alongside the garbage were everyday household items like pots, pans, and old books. Here is some of the junk I ended up bringing home (and then throwing away again).
So I looked through the junk and discovered a nice new Zippo Lighter.
If they were dumb enough to throw this nice lighter away there had to be more nice things I figured. So I took the time to look through more junk. It was gross, most of the bags were filled with water and soggy old books and papers.
Then I found the real treasure, at the bottom of one of the bags: 2 40% Silver Un-circulated Eisenhower Dollars!
A 90% silver Washington Commemorative Half Dollar!
A Sterling silver BMW key chain!
A "Sons of Liberty" Commemorative token!
A $2 bank roll of nickles and a $5 bank roll of dimes!
And a broken piggy bank-like thing that had a total of $15 in clad change in it.
I was so excited to have found this stuff that I took the whole gross bag home, water, soggy books and all. After getting over my excitement for finding 3 silver coins and a silver key chain I later examined the bank rolls and discovered that the $2 roll of nickles was in fact a roll of Buffalo Nickles! Most in exceptionally good condition! There were even 3 "V nickles" included, the oldest being from 1896!
I expected the roll of dimes to be of a similar age and be all silver, but alas my luck had run out for the day, they were all modern clad dimes.
The day's total: 37 Buffalo Nickles, 3 V Nickles, 2 40% silver Eisenhower Dollars, 1 90% Silver Washington Commemorative Half Dollar, a Sterling silver BMW Key Chain, a commemorative token, $20 in clad change, and a nice new Zippo lighter. (And $145 in cash that I made @ work that day, which I for some reason included in the picture, I guess to ad to the size of the day's haul lol).
So I looked through the junk and discovered a nice new Zippo Lighter.
If they were dumb enough to throw this nice lighter away there had to be more nice things I figured. So I took the time to look through more junk. It was gross, most of the bags were filled with water and soggy old books and papers.
Then I found the real treasure, at the bottom of one of the bags: 2 40% Silver Un-circulated Eisenhower Dollars!
A 90% silver Washington Commemorative Half Dollar!
A Sterling silver BMW key chain!
A "Sons of Liberty" Commemorative token!
A $2 bank roll of nickles and a $5 bank roll of dimes!
And a broken piggy bank-like thing that had a total of $15 in clad change in it.
I was so excited to have found this stuff that I took the whole gross bag home, water, soggy books and all. After getting over my excitement for finding 3 silver coins and a silver key chain I later examined the bank rolls and discovered that the $2 roll of nickles was in fact a roll of Buffalo Nickles! Most in exceptionally good condition! There were even 3 "V nickles" included, the oldest being from 1896!
I expected the roll of dimes to be of a similar age and be all silver, but alas my luck had run out for the day, they were all modern clad dimes.
The day's total: 37 Buffalo Nickles, 3 V Nickles, 2 40% silver Eisenhower Dollars, 1 90% Silver Washington Commemorative Half Dollar, a Sterling silver BMW Key Chain, a commemorative token, $20 in clad change, and a nice new Zippo lighter. (And $145 in cash that I made @ work that day, which I for some reason included in the picture, I guess to ad to the size of the day's haul lol).
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