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In August 2015 my daughter bought a box containing hundreds of letters at a rummage sale in Kentucky. She has spent the last four years reading and researching the letters and the members of the family who wrote them. The letters date from about 1895-1903. Today she was reading and transcribing a letter written on July 22, 1896 when this fell out of the envelope.  It is pretty neat to think that she was the first person to touch his Barber dime in 123 years. She is quite the historian and keeps the readers of her blog updated on what she finds in the letters. https://yeoldenews.tumblr.com/Paul Bulgerin
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05/04/2019 9:58 pm
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Plus the first year of issue. Very nice!  ! |
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Sounds like an interesting time capsule. Congrats. Any mention in the letter why the dime was in there?
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No. I asked her about that and she said there was no mention of the dime in the letter.
She wonders if it may have been on Will's desk (he was the person who received the letter and was at boarding school at the time) and he accidentally put it in the envelop after reading the letter.
Paul Bulgerin
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Cool story, and very nice coin, but I have a hard time believing someone accidentally put a dime in a envelope.. there has to be more to it, but we will probably never know..
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but I have a hard time believing someone accidentally put a dime in a envelope.. That was my first thought as well. A dime would have been a lot of money for me back then! But if the kid was away in boarding school, they had money. |
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The letters are from the members of a well-to-do family living in Pennsylvania as well as New York. They hobnobbed with many famous people at the time including Presidents McKinley and Roosevelt.
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Cool find--thx for sharing!
"If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
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"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
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Double WOW! WOW!
I would frame the letter, envelope, and the dime. What a time capsule.
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I'll bet it is fascinating reading those letters. I recently had the opportunity to do something similar with documents from a civil war soldier and his family. Very interesting.
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Very nice! |
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The dime adds an interesting touch to an amazing find of letters. And the dime looks about VF-XF, which is what you would expect for a 4 year old silver dime in circulation. Too bad there wasn't any mention of it in the letter.
We recently found some old postcards and letters from my wife's family which were delivered in the 1930's and 1940's. Old stories are a glimpse of the past, which is always fascinating. No coins in them though.
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That is a real interesting story and coin.
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