I saw the article a couple of days ago and they mentioned a coin but there wasn't anything else about it. That's cool
Very cool. You know that whomever lost the half dollar was sure upset with themselves. That was quite the sum of cash in those days.
Definitely was a substantial amount of $$$ back then. Also could have been a lost family heirloom or something and never meant to have been spent though... "She uncovered up a 50-cent coin from 1808 — the year Ben Ross and Harriet Tubman’s mother, Harriet “Rit” Green, were married and started their family."