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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gregsglass, post: 322915, member: 78&quot;]Hi Marie,</p><p>&nbsp; I guess it was a good luck piece for an old sailor who was unlucky enough to fall in the river and lose the coin. When the gov was digging up the Philadelphia shore line which had not been touched for 200 years all kinds of stuff was found. Cannons, guns all sorts of coins and bottles. The best was an old burlap bag containing 25 pieces of solid silver tea service. There was an article in the old 1772 Philadelphia newspaper offering a reward for its recovery just took 200 hundred years to find and recover. I found 100s of old onion bottles and clay pipes. I think it was 17 or 18 old cannons were found. On weekends there were 100s of &quot;Mudlarkers&quot; like along the Thames.</p><p>So much was found that disappeared into collections and sold. The museums started to send workers out to gather things. I remember one Saturday the area were I was digging was covered with several barges of mud and dirt. It was like the gold rush.</p><p>greg[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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