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Valued Member
United States
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You don't know how tempting it is to tear it down and dig lol hope I'm not the only one here who thinks like this ;)
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Pillar of the Community
United States
6478 Posts |
Do you have a detector? It would be fun to go and dig up coins around your house.
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
5828 Posts |
You mean like dig in the basement? My house was built in the...(had to google it) 1920. Might be some stuff! Also, my brother is buying a house made in 1910. I hope I find a wheaty or 10 from then!
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Moderator
 United States
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Thinking about it? Sure.  Actually doing it?  In 1981~1982 I lived in a house build in the late 1920's. That house was solid. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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It would be fun to go and dig up coins around your house. I had posted in another thread that my son and I went through our yard with a metal detector. The house was built in 1895 and EVERY coin we found was dated after 1992. (when we moved in) We did find what appeared to be their scrap yard, as we also found an ax head, mooring hook (even though we live nowhere near a large body of water) pot lids and other scrap metal.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Recently here in socal a kid found a "time capsule" in a wall while his dad was remodeling left by a kid in 1978 while his dad was remodeling. If I remember right it had a few coins in it too. Long story short the story went viral and hit the news in Texas where that all grown up little boy saw it and contacted the kid... man the world has changed in such a short period of time!
I say go for it but I would start by using a metal detector filtered to only detect gold & silver. Go over every floor and wall!
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Rest in Peace
United States
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New England Collector, it would by neat but, MA has so many codes based on historical re construction that you would need to do. Buy a metal detector and start searching. Wait , you noted you are from New Bedford. Maybe you should search late at night. The local Historical Society may be watching.  Edited by bpoc1
06/30/2015 4:12 pm
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United States
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Recently here in socal a kid found a "time capsule" in a wall while his dad was remodeling left by a kid in 1978 while his dad was remodeling. If I remember right it had a few coins in it too. Long story short the story went viral and hit the news in Texas where that all grown up little boy saw it and contacted the kid... man the world has changed in such a short period of time! 1978 is when my collecting was sparked by the two Eisenhower dollars. A lot has changed since then.  I think it is great that time capsule originator was able to make contact with the finder.  |
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Valued Member
 United States
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Lol yeah our laws are pretty strict here for sure! I'm yet to invest in a metal detector, the thought of walking around with one with all the nosy folks around here doesn't make me wanna go out and run to pick one up... We did a lot of remodeling a while back and oh how I wish I was into collecting then because even if we did find a penny we'd most likely just have seen it as just a penny and tossed it away :'( it's so funny because I love that movie back to the future and when Marty goes back in time to the diner and they have change on the counter my eyes light up like omg Marty take the coins lol
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06/30/2015 4:52 pm
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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my house was built in the 20s too, the original owner owned like the entire block+ and it was an apple orchard and stuff...found a lot of horse shoes, old glass and wait for it..............no, not coins but old posters of all kinds as well as news papers from the war. cool stuff.
Feel free to call me Will.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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and the thing is all of this stuff was in the walls being used as insulation!
Feel free to call me Will.
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Valued Member
United States
53 Posts |
I recall finding some odd old paper in our walls as well it was in Latin I believe. We couldn't read it so in the trash it went.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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We lived in a Tudor built in the 20s, and used to find newspapers of the day stuffed into the walls.
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Rest in Peace
United States
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I think it was common practice to use newspaper as insulation way back in the day. I remember when I was a kid my best friends dad remodeled their house, which was built back around the turn of the last century (1900ish) and it had only newspaper between the inner and outer walls. It wasn't an issue when energy was cheap, but those days are long gone.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I have always heard the story of my grandfather redoing the roof on his house in the late 50's early 60's and the roof was insulated with "worthless" confederate notes and newspapers. My mother and aunts would play store with it until it was all destroyed and thrown away. I never really believed the amounts they were talking about thinking it was an exaggerated story from foggy memories. When he died we cleaned out the attic and there was still confederate notes stuffed in the walls. None of them were really worth saving as time, rodents, and bugs had taken their tole on them, but everyone has one note stashed away from that house.
My grandpa also told us a story about owing someone money ~100 if I remember correctly. He didn't have the money upfront so he put a dollar down and paid a dollar a week. I couldn't ever really comprehend a dollar having too much value and thought that was a story too. Well when we cleaned the attic, we found the hand written weekly receipts for a dollar.
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Valued Member
United States
53 Posts |
A dollar back then could get you a lot at the grocery store. Now you can barely get much with a 20
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Posted 06/30/2015 2:43 pm
