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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bev aka thelmasstuff, post: 10010065, member: 23&quot;]When we moved into the 1850 family homestead in 1990, there were generations of family stuff (still is!) in the attic.&nbsp; We found several bottle dumps out back.&nbsp; One of my brothers-in-law was a bit of a waster and lived here with his mother most of his life.&nbsp; He was always collecting anything he could sell for drinking money.&nbsp; There was a wooden crate full of old metal junk sitting by the corner of the house out back which I never bothered to look at and it slowly disintegrated.&nbsp; Yesterday, Jon and I decided to clean up the yard.&nbsp; As we started filling buckets with rusty metal bits, I started finding old coins in one corner.&nbsp; They are all dated 1818-1851 and nearly every one is damaged in some way.&nbsp; Most have random holes.&nbsp; I cleaned a couple to see details. I figure nothing I do is going to reduce the value any more than they are already.&nbsp; A clue to the source popped up when I found a 1974 penny underneath most of the hoard.&nbsp; Obviously, Tom left them in the crate. I just can&#039;t figure out if he damaged them or if he found them somewhere like that and why someone would do that.&nbsp; It was kind of exhilarating.&nbsp; [ATTACH=full]502770[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]502771[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]502772[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]502773[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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