Lupinus returns to post about his HOARD FIND!!!!!! (A very sad hoard find)

Hi there! For those of you who remember me, I would like to let you know that I have stopped coin collecting for a while but something happened today that I HAD to talk about:

My house was built in 1950, you can call it fairly old. We've been installing new floorboards lately and today we started on my bedroom. In the closet, under a board, we found a small box that appeared to have laid there for years and years and years. I picked it up and opened it. To my shock, there were merc dimes, walking liberties and many, many wheats looking back at me! I quickly took them out and started to look at them. And now, the sad part. It appears that almost every single one of these coins has been harmed in some way. Some were bent, some had holes, some worn down or pressed with machinery, and some that were just......it makes me sad to think about them. But nevertheless, there was silver! And lots of it! I noticed that most of the coins were from the 40's and very few were from the 50's. I guessed that they were collected in the early fifties and then just put away. Now to talk about the damage caused to them. At first I thought that they were part of a collection that was in a fire but some of them were intentionally harmed (an s mint war nickel, date unknown, had the obverse worn down by a sander so much that I almost broke the thing in half). I also noticed that the condition of the coins were pretty good, apart from the intentional mauling. One silver rosie could have reached unc. if it wasn't bent. Why someone would do such horrible things to these coins, I don't know. Alas, they will be put away as junk silver. As for the wheats, they were almost all worn, bent or damged in some way. Some actually were not touched at all, but on the otherhand they looked well circulated, as if i got them in my change just yesterday. Some of the dates were in the teens but most of them were 44's. I must look at these coins more closely, perhaps I will find a 43 copper or a 44 steel eek. I will post later when I have gone through them more closely!

P.S. There were also numerous chinese or japanese coins, they looked just as old as the wheats.

 

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Youve inspired me to start tearing up the floorboards in my house.