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Message:: [QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 3127364, member: 10461"]... There are eight other Capped Bust half dollars in the box, and these date from 1812 to 1836, though this will not be known until the entire contents are inventoried later. But a great many other silver half dollars are also found.  There are dozens and dozens of <a href="http://www.coinfacts.com/half_dollars/seated_liberty_half_dollars/seated_liberty_half_dollars.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinfacts.com/half_dollars/seated_liberty_half_dollars/seated_liberty_half_dollars.html" rel="nofollow">Seated Liberty halves</a>.  The ones found in the box are mostly dated between 1845 and 1860, and very many of them bear the "O" mintmark of the New Orleans mint, though this detail is lost on our homeowner until much later. Nor are these the only silver coins found in the box. Though a few Seated Liberty <a href="https://collectivecoin.com/lordmarcovan/7my2PhjhXCrR9PLbqB5k/EuuT1iYh0lSAMpFNiouv" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://collectivecoin.com/lordmarcovan/7my2PhjhXCrR9PLbqB5k/EuuT1iYh0lSAMpFNiouv" rel="nofollow">dimes</a> and quarters are found, most of the silver coins are half dollars. There are, however, a few even larger silver coins - perhaps sixteen or so - in the box, and later, when those are found, the homeowner will be somewhat surprised to see that they bear much earlier dates - mostly in the 1790s.  The newest of them is dated 1804.  Even our numismatically uninitiated homeowner has heard of silver dollars before, but these do not resemble any silver dollar he has ever seen.  Unlike most of the silver coins in the hoard, these are more heavily worn, and it is obvious they spent more time in circulation before being put into the Confederate strongbox. But he will not find most of these until later, when the last of the muck is hosed out of the box. And before that happens, several glass jars - some broken, some intact - will be found beneath the rest of the stacks of rotting Confederate currency. Interestingly, these are <a href="https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jar,_preserving_(AM_614690-1).jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jar,_preserving_(AM_614690-1).jpg" rel="nofollow">1858 patent Mason jars</a> - some of the very first of that famous brand ever made: [ATTACH=full]797391[/ATTACH] But the contents of those glass jars will later prove far more exciting than the jars themselves. ...[/QUOTE]

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