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http://www.kcautv.com/story/1565310...n-sioux-cityTanya De Jesus tdejesus@kcautv.com Two Sioux City girls have stumbled across history in a jar, literally. And "finders keepers" now takes on a whole new meaning for them. It was a typical walk in the woods in the Morningside area for Mikell Zishka and Emily Palmersheim. That's before they found these rusty old coins inside a jar just lying on the ground. And they immediately knew they were anything but ordinary. "I was excited because nobody really finds money in a jar lying around," said Palmersheim. And Zishka says,"We sort of looked at them. They looked very old and rusty because like the Mercury dimes you never see any of those dimes anymore or the 50 cent pieces." It turns out the oldest coin is from 1894 and the newest one just from 1945. In addition to finding something cool and valuable, having the coins has taught the girls a history lesson. "People would stow away jars for like after the great depression because money was getting scarce and the government was using all the metal they could for bullets for the warriors," said Zishka. That's a lesson they hope to one day teach their kids as they plan to polish the coins, put them in a display case and pass them from generation to generation.
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That's a lesson they hope to one day teach their kids as they plan to polish the coins, put them in a display case and pass them from generation to generation.  |
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Polish the coins!?!?   |
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Well honestly I bet somebody took the initiative to call/email/let them know NOT to polish them. Probably a big name collector who saw the article. Just wait til these girls' grandchildren get a display case full of "shiny coins" and find out they are worth melt!
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Knowing that the coins are going to be polished, I'd rather that they had stayed lost...
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Isn't polishing the coins the same as cleaning them?
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Sheesh. They might as well melt the "rusty" coins.
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Isn't polishing the coins the same as cleaning them? Worse actually. |
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It was cool until they got to the polish part. LOL
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Well honestly I bet somebody took the initiative to call/email/let them know NOT to polish them. That's what I was thinking. But if everybody thinks that then nobody will take the initiative to make that call! |
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That's a lesson they hope to one day teach their kids as they plan to polish the coins, put them in a display case and pass them from generation to generation.
AAAHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhh. Actually I suppose they mean clean them up, not actually polish them. If you've ever seen a coin that looks like a proof and it is just a regualar coin, usually polished. At many places where someone is demonstrating an auto polish, they use a coin as an example. Any coin will normally get that proof like appearance if actually polished with auto polish, funature polish, etc. Some of the so called auto cleaner waxes will not only clean a coin but leave a nice water proof layer of wax on them. |
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...the government was using all the metal they could for bullets for the warriors... Unless they were expecting an invasion of werewolves, I don't think they were using the metal (silver) for bullets... |
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The first clue these "rusty coins" would end up ruined was when the one girl dropped them by the handful onto the others. Clink Clink Clink ! I saw some nice Standing Liberty quarters, Mercury dimes and Walking Liberty halves that were looking nice in there but they are toned so I suppose they will get polished first. Oh well, make me feel ill. Yes I think they would be better off left in the ground. You know, where there is one jar, there could always be more. If anyone lives close to Sioux City and is a metal detector, I would get on over there and talk to mom and see if they will let you split the cache you find. While you are there you could introduce the girls to this site and teach them about NOT cleaning coins. EDIT: I did email them with that second link. Hope it's not too late. Edited by TNG
10/10/2011 9:31 pm
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This is within 100 miles of my house!
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Posted 10/10/2011 4:13 pm
