Posted on 04/08/2020 7:31:57 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
1929 Washington Quarter
I think I left that detail in my somewhat heavy-handed edit job.
" He just takes the tractor another round and he pulls the plow across the ground
Underneath this Amarillo sky"
*Poor old dirt farmer.
I’m surprised at how many nickels from the 40’s and 50’s are still in circulation. I have one I received in change dated to 1943.
Wheat pennies were uncommon but not hard to find when I was a kid. I still find one once in a great while.
Apparently quarters before 1965 had a high silver content. As they all but vanished from my observation when silver spiked in...1979 or 1980?
As others have pointed out. A plow. The container, either wooden, leather, or cloth rotted away over the millenia. The coins were dispersed throughout the field through the action of frost heaving in the soil and annual plowing
I’m guessing that this was the site of a coin-operated chariot wash.
Interesting, especially that the finder was never identified, and most of the coins are again lost again to the sands of time..
I think I may have a few like that in my horde somewhere ?
I remember hearing a story decades ago about an old Roman coin found on a beach in Maine.
In the parable of the workers in the vineyard (Matthew 20), the coin is called a denarion, the Greek transliteration of denarius. In the King James translation, it is translated as a penny. So you have the workers agreeing to work all day for a penny.
Last year, I found a 1943 Mercury dime in my change.
I received it as part of my change from a cashier in the garden section of a WalMart here in Maine.
As a kid, I used to find MANY Mercury dimes while going through my mother’s pocketbook and the change in my father’s pockets (with their permission). Also pre-1965 90% silver Roosevelt dimes, Washington quarters, an occasional Standing Liberty quarter dollar, 40% silver war time Jefferson nickels, Buffalo nickels, wheat pennies, 1943 steel Lincoln pennies, etc.
My father and I sold all the silver coins, and all silver half dollars and Morgan silver dollars, when silver reached $50 an ounce in 1980.
I even sold back then a roll of uncirculated 1963 Washington quarter dollars in a clear plastic tube that my father bought for me at a business called “The Trading Post” on Long Island.
That reminds me of a joke said by one of the actors in the movie, “The Hollywood Knights.”
“What do you get when you cross a donkey with a slice of onion?”
“A piece of ass that brings tears to your eyes!”
That is a truly fascinating insight. Those terms all have meaning today, and throughout time, there.
What a world!
I’m lucky enough to have a “tribute penney” issued by Tiberius. Originally the English penny was a silver coin. 240 of them weighed a pound (troy). So £1 was actually a pound of sterling silver. But that was a very long time ago.
I just got a 1963 quarter as change a few weeks ago. 90% silver. I was pretty happy.
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"I'm an independent contractor! Pay the girl!"
Thanks, I'm sure I had come across information resembling that (and it's not the only such find, by a long shot) but it's nice to have specifics.
Just think of all the buried Bitcoins farmers will discover 2000 years from now!
My great grandmother (1886-1966) saved silver coins for her yet to born great grandchildren. I ended up with a gallon ziplock bag of silver dollars and half dollars. I still find silver coins but you have to know how to listen for them. They make a distictive clinking noise when jingled with other coins.
They'll have to look in ancient crypts. I see what I did there...
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