http://www.keshequacoins.com/MVHStory.html By: Marilyn Capawan Keshequa Coins Keshequa Coins announces the recently discovered Mohawk Valley Hoard of Bust Quarters and Halves. The beep of your metal detector means only one thing-you’ve found….SOMETHING. Is it a pile of rusty nails from an abandoned farmhouse? A piece of costume jewelry buried by children of long ago playing “pirate”? Or, could it be genuine buried treasure? When the find turns out to be a group of 6 silver coins, and those turn out to be Bust Half Dollars that are Extremely Fine to Almost Uncirculated, the buried treasure scenario seems a possibility. And, as the saying goes, the possibilities are endless! The story begins in the early 1990s, when two inveterate metal detectorists in the vicinity of Albany, New York began hearing stories of ‘buried treasure’ to be found on nearby lands. Not even a trace of treasure, however, had ever been found. To make matters even more challenging, the area containing the ‘treasure’, if it even actually existed, hadn’t been pinpointed. It could be anywhere in the Mohawk Valley around the cities of Schenectady and Albany---anywhere at all. But knowledge of the environs and its history lent credibility to the possibility of something important to be found in its buried past. ................ Much much more (TOTW Worthy)
Great story..read the whole thing. It must be very exciting in an "Indiana Jones" kind of way to uncover something like that. The only experience I can relate to that was in any way similar was finding a perfectly preserved flint-struck quartz spearpoint on a hike in Joshua Tree Monument many years ago in SoCal. The very oddest thing about that find was that shortly before,I had been thinking about the Native-Americans who had inhabited the area long ago. It was as they say "synchronistic".
