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Pillar of the Community
United States
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It's not much to look at, but a fun find regardless. After power washing the deck and house, this was found in a little pile of crud on the concrete steps. It's an 1882-O Morgan there. House was built in 1948. I'm going to clean the heck out of it, then I suppose I need to crawl under the deck and make sure there's not another 500 of them.   |
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
8938 Posts |
Take a detector to your property
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Pillar of the Community
United States
646 Posts |
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I'm going to clean the heck out of it Huh, not something you usually hear from a coin collector, but I guess in this case it works |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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What's to lose?  |
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Valued Member
United States
202 Posts |
That is a cool find! My house was built in the 40's but I have been all thur/around my property with a metal detector and found nothing but modern coins.
My property was settled in the land run through so maybe one day I will find something like that.
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06/10/2019 7:48 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
900 Posts |
If you were able to find that without a metal detector, imagine what you could find with a metal detector. There are definitely 500 more under there waiting to be found. |
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Rest in Peace
United States
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nice way to find silver .  |
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
21786 Posts |
OneBowl: We all live in hope! As an executor to an uncle's estate, I cleaned up his house prior to selling. I found about $2,000 in mint fresh crisp $1 and $2 banknotes and MS coins (all common), all ++20 years old. The $1 and $2 denomination notes had long since been withdrawn from circulation at the time of their discovery. I was honest. The cash that I found was integrated into his estate. I was one of about 20 beneficiaries. |
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 United States
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Nice find!  Quote:
Take a detector to your property |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I was honest. The cash that I found was integrated into his estate. I was one of about 20 beneficiaries Way to go! I hope you earned brownie points with the relatives. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1613 Posts |
All I ever found in mine was a few bills, about thirty dollars worth, taped behind the door moulding between two rooms. The old-timers hid money in the strangest of places.
ANA member - PAN Member - BCCS Member There are no problems only solutions - the late, great John Lennon
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Nice find of the Morgan dollar around the house. Maybe you should send it in to be graded. If it comes back as P01 you might find a buyer who is working on a lowball set. The best thing that I found around my house was an old glass milk bottle when I dug out my bushes. At least it was in one piece and it cleaned up pretty nice. |
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Valued Member
United States
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Did you you get the metal detector out yet?
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Bedrock of the Community
Canada
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I need to crawl under the deck and make sure there's not another 500 of them.
Why not? good luck! |
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