Ever Get That Feeling When You Receive Change?

Was at the boys last football game and decided I needed a batch of boiled peanuts (Don't judge me. They are wonderful)..... I get back three cents in change and I see one of the cents she is about to hand me is fully encrusted in what I can only hope is mud.... My first instinct was to smile and tell her to add the cents to her penny cup when something in my gut said... No, take the change. I took the encrusted cent home and filled a cup of warm soapy water (Again, don't judge me) and dropped the cent in to soak overnight... This morning I rinsed it off and hidden beneath the spunge was a relatively nice wheatie.

I had a good friend who is gone now that used to find arrowheads constantly and it always surprised me that he just had a knack for seeing them in the oddest places. He told me he could sense an aura when he was near an arrowhead.... I rather wonder if that's what I felt when I saw that spunge encrusted cent last night.

 

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fun find.

 

I have hundreds of arrowheads and other Native American Artifacts that I found over the years. I always felt, the same as your friend, that I could sense the presence of them. The same is true about coins. I think we just have it from the lifelong association with them.

Nice find.

 

Ever Get That Feeling When You Receive Change?
And once again I've been shorted 35 cents.

 

Don't let this type of thinking run away with you, next thing you know, you'll be running around town trying to find coins with dowsing rods!

 

I would probably have better luck with dowsing rods than with my metal detector!

 

My first was a Bounty Hunter, It still is a coin and relic finding machine. Thing is the good stuff is deep or hidden next to junk metal, or under a small rock etc. The cheap ones can't discern between the two or find it because it is hidden from the signal.
I bought a Fisher and it is much more difficult to run.

 

Besides the soapy water what else did you clean this with? As far as actually getting the nasty off, did you wipe it with a cloth or air dry or .......?

 

I plead the fifth...

 

So, you soaked it in a Fifth? Crown Royal perhaps?

 

Everclear

 

No sir... I sued that for my toothache!

 

Good for teething lotion also.

 

They are indeed........the son in law is crazy about them. Even tries to make his own but they ain't as good as the ones you can buy along the roadside in Fla.

 

When working on my first set of wheat cents I purchased some of the ones I needed in and antique store, in my change was another wheat cent. Not one I needed but still seemed strange to me!!! Good decision Randy!!!!

 

and lookie at that ... it also has an arrowhead on it !! LOL

 

Boiled peanuts to a southerner are like cheese curds to a northerner. We can't do cheese curds down here and y'all can't do boiled peanuts up there. They have to be consumed while warm from the pot and they are messy and incredibly delightful on the palate.

 

Won't find them in restaurants. Best thing is to look for roadside vendors. They will dip them out of the pot for you.... And eat them warm. Cold is fine, but warm is the ticket to bliss.