Found in a Candy Tin: One of the First Coins Struck in Colonial North America

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smar...pJobID=2140009106&spReportId=MjE0MDAwOTEwNgS2

 

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That was a bit of a fabrication on several fronts - the candy tin is a fairly recent vintage. I could use one of my old Altoids or Sucrets tins and use them as a storage facility for my pine tree shillings, etc.

 

Awww !
I was wishing it was real. Where's that guy Mark Walburg. He's from Boston. He should know.

 

Wow. Sucrets? I haven’t heard or thought about them in years, lol.

 

Nah! Mark Wahlburg was the action guy. His brother, Donnie, was the historical buff.

 

Like the royal dansk sewing kit

 

Aha that’s where I left it

 

My sewing kit is actually in an old "Pollywogs" tin from ca. 1950s 1960s. Pollywogs were some sort of chocolate, peanuts and caramel candy.

 

Are my eyes deceiving me, or are there 2 Continental Dollars in that box?

 

That is the exact tin I keep all old concert and sports stubs/bracelets, hunting and fishing licenses, and other similar miscellany.

 

I have a tin of Sucrets...I love the way they numb my throat when it hurts.

 

So tell Smithsonian...I didn't write it, I just shared it because of the coins - NOT the tin.

 

@scottishmoneyNot looking like a fabrication now, is it?
https://www.ngccoin.com/news/article/9691/ngc-certified-massachusetts-shilling-realizes-over-350000-dollars/?utm_source=The Mx Group&utm_medium=Email &utm_campaign=21-NG-2601 Dec '21 eNews

 

His last name is Wahlberg. Good actor.

 

I knew it was something like that!