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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;willieboyd2, post: 7878338, member: 4910&quot;]There&#039;s a silver dollar in it.</p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>Work crews were still searching Thursday morning for a time capsule they believed was buried inside the pedestal under a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that towered over Richmond, Virginia, for more than a century until it was taken down Wednesday.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>A newspaper article from 1887 suggests that the copper time capsule contains mostly memorabilia, including a U.S. silver dollar and a collection of Confederate buttons. But one line from that article has piqued the interest of historians. Listed among the artifacts is a &quot;picture of Lincoln lying in his coffin&quot;.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>Yahoo News and Associated Press:</p><p><a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/confederate-statues-1887-time-capsule-050427985.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/confederate-statues-1887-time-capsule-050427985.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.yahoo.com/news/confederate-statues-1887-time-capsule-050427985.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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