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<p>[QUOTE="Whipps, post: 3037058, member: 71975"]I love some of the buildings in Baltimore. I’ve been in the basements of most of the larger buildings in downtown. I’m always on the lookout for cool stuff. </p><p><br /></p><p>A few summers back when the Washington monument was being renovated, I was doing some work in the basement. They were digging it out to put in some new electrical equipment. One of the guys was telling me about all the stuff they were finding. The things I saw were pretty cool, old whiskey botttles, a few spoons that I’m pretty sure were silver, old nails that were probably from bracing when it was originally built and a bunch of other little stuff. He mentioned that they found a couple of coins as well. He said they were old and dirty, and he didn’t know that they were. I wish I could have taken a look at them but his boss took them. I would love to know what they were. The monument was built between 1815 and 1829 so you could imagine what coin they pulled out of there[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Whipps, post: 3037058, member: 71975"]I love some of the buildings in Baltimore. I’ve been in the basements of most of the larger buildings in downtown. I’m always on the lookout for cool stuff. A few summers back when the Washington monument was being renovated, I was doing some work in the basement. They were digging it out to put in some new electrical equipment. One of the guys was telling me about all the stuff they were finding. The things I saw were pretty cool, old whiskey botttles, a few spoons that I’m pretty sure were silver, old nails that were probably from bracing when it was originally built and a bunch of other little stuff. He mentioned that they found a couple of coins as well. He said they were old and dirty, and he didn’t know that they were. I wish I could have taken a look at them but his boss took them. I would love to know what they were. The monument was built between 1815 and 1829 so you could imagine what coin they pulled out of there[/QUOTE]
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