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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I know there is a thread or two on this forum about this topic and it got me thinking. We are doing some big renovations to our house and I have been looking for a stashed coin here or there to no avail. Now I'd like to stash a newer coin or two somewhere for the fun of it.
So, here's a fun question, if you were building or renovating your house, what would you stash away in the walls? Is there anything you think would be fun to find years down the road? I guess this can apply to anything but was interested mainly in coins obviously.
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United States
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I would put a hoard of modern US stuff somewhere! A pile of ATB, State Quarters, LMCs, LSCs, Jeffersons, clad Roosies,etc. Maybe throw in an Ike or two! |
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I used to do home interiors. I have probably built a thousand stairways over the years. Before closing in the last step of ant stairway I built, I always put in a piece of wood with my name and date on it, the daily paper and a new quarter.
If I was doing my own home, I would put in a new Silver Eagle. Could you imagine someone pulling up the treads of a stairway in the next 100 years and finding a brand new Silver Eagle, with a note from the owner saying where he got the Eagle, how much he paid for it, and presenting it to you as the next finder of this small treasure ?
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That is a really cool story denco7.
I would probably put a 2012 one cent. It has the maple leaf (the most Canadian symbol I can think of) and being younger I have never seen a 50 cent piece in the wild so who ever finds it when I am dust will probably have never seen a penny in the wild.
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United States
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We always put a bottle of wine for luck (big projects) I would think putting coins from the year of the project is cool
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Oregon coin geek.....*** GO BEAVS ! ! ! ***
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Pillar of the Community
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Great story denco and thanks for the link raymo.
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Zilcolns! cement them down in the bathroom and cover and level them with resin to make a nice floor giving that old copper look without the copper problems. They would be right in plain sight, but who would take them out later and how much work would they go through to get them to spend? The catch is you hide a few special ones in like a wheat or something so that the next person might notice it years later that that 1 over ther, and this one over here are different.
Take a pair of quarters, one for the year the house was fiinished and one for the state it is in, and tape them behind a fake light switch. You know how some rooms have 2 switches and one nevr goes to anything but is pretty much useless, well have a panel that has only 1 hole for a switch but covers 2... no wait. Just get one of those Light switch looking mini wall safes, and fill it with coins and put it in an outlet box for the next person.
Hang one of the holed coins you find in the attic on a nail so that it can be seen but not easily reached.
the only problem I fear is that a new owner won't find any of this stuff but some repairman will take it when the owner never knows it is there. Not that you can trust contractors anyway...
Maybe put a whole box of copper cents in between two walls right on the floor for someone later to find?
So many crazy ideas, and only Q would be able to do them all.
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United States
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When we re-modeled our house, all we found were a couple animal skeletons.
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Posted 08/22/2014 12:44 pm
