I've seen a few coins embedded in sidewalks. I guess the person did this to mark the year it was done. anyone else seen them before?
Nope, but I like the idea. A few weeks ago, a prank show superglued an iPhone5 to the sidewalk in Rome and videotaped people's reactions to finding it. They were pretty darn hilarious...
My wife surpised me a few years back when she sent me this pic while I was at work. They has just got done pouring new concrete in our back yard. My 1st question to her text was "was that a CC ?"
It's usually done by kids after the cement guy goes home after work. We used to put our hand prints in fresh cement whenever they redid the sidewalks in front of our house when we were younger.
You just 'tweaked' a childhood memory Tim. I remember my father placing a '64 cent in some concrete he'd poured as a base for an backyard shed........
At my grandparent's house on the dairy (I grew up on the dairy) there was a Lincoln Cent embedded in the concrete (not cement - pet peeve, sorry) at the base of a lamp beside the steps to the house. I believe it was a 1956 but could have been a 1957. Anyway, I was too young to remember when I was placed there but it was there as far back as I can remember. Sometime in the late '70s or early '80s somebody pried it out so that little memory is gone forever (along with the dairy, but that's another story).
Went to a national park today, was a 1630 church, had a 1995 p penny in a crack in the wall, was it a double die, mabye, wasn't allowed to touch it though
This seemed to be common practice with multiple forms of construction. We were remodeling an apartment, and a 1944 wheat cent came out of the wall as we tore it out.
I just saw it there, wondered what it was, if it was a coin of value, it wasn't, you know how coin collectors are, curious
