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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 3127085, member: 10461&quot;]<font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #006600">... </span></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #006600"><br /></span></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #006600"><b>Almost</b> as soon as he has uncovered the sodden stacks of paper money, our homeowner realizes what he is seeing inside the box.&nbsp; </span></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #006600"><br /></span></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #006600">It is immediately evident that he has unearthed a sizeable hoard of Confederate currency, which must surely have been buried sometime during the Civil War!</span></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #006600"><br /></span></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #006600">From what he can see of the notes, they seem to consist of a variety of denominations from $1 to $100, but most of the stacks seem to be of the $5, $10, and $20 denominations.</span></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #006600"><br /></span></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #006600">None of the notes he sees appear to date any later than 1861.</span></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #006600"><br /></span></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #006600">Sadly, this paper currency is mostly ruined, and will not likely have very much value on the collector market as-is, unless some rare varieties are found.&nbsp; But the homeowner does not yet realize this. He is rightfully excited by the sheer quantity of money in the box.&nbsp; Never mind the condition - there is just so <i>much</i> of it here! </span></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #006600"><br /></span></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #006600">He begins removing stacks of notes from the box and placing them on the garage floor.&nbsp; The paper has a damp and earthy odor.</span></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #006600"><br /></span></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #006600">As he lifts the larger bundle of documents out, taking care not to let them fall to pieces in his hands, something falls out of the corner of the bundle.</span></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #006600"><br /></span></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #006600">He catches a glimpse of a dark grey object as it falls, and hears it land on the concrete floor with a metallic ringing sound.</span></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #006600"><br /></span></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #006600">Placing the sodden bundle of documents onto the floor, he picks the fallen object up.</span></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #006600"><br /></span></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #006600">It is a large coin, tarnished almost black, but there are areas of its surfaces still bright enough for him to discern that it is a <i>silver</i> coin.</span></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #006600"><br /></span></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #006600">...</span></font></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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