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<p>[QUOTE="wesdavidson, post: 587839, member: 18646"]I have been watching both of these , the rolls have a good story, fairly plausible - at least at first, he comes and goes.. If it wasn't so much money I may have investigated further. The bottle of coins JUST FOUND or the tin bank, well, it plays somewhat shorter, he has been around for a while. </p><p><br /></p><p> There has been an add that shows a living room piled about a foot deep with old pennies, about the size of a bed. who knows. </p><p>. </p><p> Hyperbole, pure and simple. if you can give the public a fantasy, lost gold, mystery, and old bank, or my sucker weakness, shipwrecks,,, then you can sell snow to eskimos. </p><p><br /></p><p> Numismatic knowledge is way down. This isn't the 50's, not as many collect now. </p><p><br /></p><p> Some are true, a friend sold a pile of 1940-s and 50's quarters that were found after a home sale, didn't pick through them at all. . I found an 1816 harpers ferry musket in a remodel as a kid. A friend burried tin cans full of coins as a kid. -Then his family moved, maybe someone has found them. </p><p><br /></p><p> There is a guy who advertises britt and spanish colonials as metal detector finds near colonial williamburg, plausible.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="wesdavidson, post: 587839, member: 18646"]I have been watching both of these , the rolls have a good story, fairly plausible - at least at first, he comes and goes.. If it wasn't so much money I may have investigated further. The bottle of coins JUST FOUND or the tin bank, well, it plays somewhat shorter, he has been around for a while. There has been an add that shows a living room piled about a foot deep with old pennies, about the size of a bed. who knows. . Hyperbole, pure and simple. if you can give the public a fantasy, lost gold, mystery, and old bank, or my sucker weakness, shipwrecks,,, then you can sell snow to eskimos. Numismatic knowledge is way down. This isn't the 50's, not as many collect now. Some are true, a friend sold a pile of 1940-s and 50's quarters that were found after a home sale, didn't pick through them at all. . I found an 1816 harpers ferry musket in a remodel as a kid. A friend burried tin cans full of coins as a kid. -Then his family moved, maybe someone has found them. There is a guy who advertises britt and spanish colonials as metal detector finds near colonial williamburg, plausible.[/QUOTE]
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