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« Reply #10 on: January 07, 2007, 05:06:37 pm »
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Thanks! Here's yet another one. Grin

Nichols Find of Copper cents (by 1859)

In annals of American numismatics, one of the most famous hoards is the so-called Nichols find, consisting of 1796 and 1797 copper cents, Mint State, perhaps about 1,000 in total.  These were distributed in the late 1850's by David Nichols.  All were gone as of 1863, by which time they were worth $3 to $4 each, or less than a thousandth of their present-day value.

There we go, and alot more where that came from.

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« Reply #11 on: January 07, 2007, 05:10:08 pm »
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Wouldn't it be nice to have one of those cents now. Grin  Great story.

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« Reply #12 on: January 07, 2007, 05:15:19 pm »
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Great story Thanks

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« Reply #13 on: January 07, 2007, 05:16:04 pm »
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It would be really nice, really.but another as well:

Randall Hoard of Copper cents (1860's)

Sometime soon after the Civil War, a wooden keg filled with as-new copper cents was located in the South and was said to have been beneath an old railroad platform in Georgia.  Revealed were thousands of coins dated 1816 to 1820, with the 1818 and 1820 being the most numerous.  Today, the Randall hoard accounts for the most Mint State examples of these particular dates.

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Great story once again.  Thanks.

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Here's another:

Colonel Cohen Hoard of 1773 Virginia Halfpennies (by the 1870s)

Sometime in the 1870s or earlier, Colonel Mendes l. Cohen, a Baltimore numismatist, obtained a cache of at least 2,200 uncirculated specimens of the 1773 Virginia halfpenny.  These passed through several hands, and many pieces were dispersed along the way.  As a result, today these are the only pre-coloinal (pre-1776) American coins that can be easily obtained in Mint State.

Another great story.

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Great story once agaiin.  Thanks.

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Another:

Exeter Hoard of Massachusetts Silver (1876)

During the excavation of a cellar near the railroad station in Exeter, New Hampshire, a group of 30 to 40 Massachusetts silver shillings was found in the sand,  amid the remains of what seemed to be a wooden box.  All bore the date 1652 and were of the Pine Tree and Oak Tree types, plus, possibly, a rare Willow Tree shilling.

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« Reply #18 on: January 09, 2007, 11:59:27 am »
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NICE STORY THANKS

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Another:

Hoard of Miser Aaron White (before 1888).  Aaron White, a Connecticut attorney, distrusted paper money and even went so far as to issue his own token, inscribed NEVER KEEP A PAPER DOLLAR IN YOU POCKET TILL TOMORROW.  He had passion for saving coins and accumulated more than 100,000 pieces.  After his death the coins were removed to a warehouse.  Later, they were placed in the hands of dealer Edouard Frossard, who sold most of them privately and others by auction on July 20, 1888, billing them as "18,000 American and foreign copper coins and tokens selected from Aaron White hoard."  An overall estimate of the Wright, and included these: "250 colonial and state copper coins, 60,000 copper large cents (which were manily 'rusted' and spotted; 5,000 of the nicest ones were picked out and sold for 2 cents each), 60,000 copper-nickel Flying Eagle and Indian cents (apparently most dated 1862 and 1863), 5,000 bronze two-cent pieces, 200 half dollars, 100 silver dollars, 350 gold dollars, and 20,000 to 30,000 foreign copper coins."

There is one of the long ones.

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