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Message:: [QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 3127174, member: 10461"]... The homeowner examines the coin he has picked up from the garage floor.  He expects it to be a Confederate coin, like the bundles of currency.  But he is not a coin collector, so he doesn't realize how ridiculously rare Confederate coins are, and that none were actually used in commerce, making the inclusion of a Confederate coin in this hoard a practical impossibility.  This coin has an eagle on the reverse, and the inscription UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.  So it is a Federal coin in a Confederate hoard.  The front of the coin bears the bust of a lady.  She wears her name - LIBERTY - on the turban on her head.  Beneath her bust is the date: 1834. It is a Capped Bust half dollar.  Beneath the coin's deep tarnish from over 125 years in that buried box, it looks something like <a href="https://collectivecoin.com/lordmarcovan/SL50Qie7LLIUhnykKUjI/OfAPnqcUHJN5QKCGiRWM" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://collectivecoin.com/lordmarcovan/SL50Qie7LLIUhnykKUjI/OfAPnqcUHJN5QKCGiRWM" rel="nofollow">this</a>: [ATTACH=full]797124[/ATTACH] Despite having been struck nearly thirty years before the outbreak of the Civil War, the coin is practically uncirculated.  It spent its time in strongboxes like the one it was found in, rather than in pockets and people's hands.  Since fifty cents was a lot of money during the Civil War and the years prior, large-denomination coins like this got saved more than spent.  But of course our homeowner knows nothing about any of this.  By now, he is in an increasingly excited mental state anyway. His eye is immediately is drawn back to the bottom of the box.  There, beneath the sludgy, rotted remnants of the bags which once held them, there are more coins. Lots of them. ... [/QUOTE]

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