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  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,239 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It might be well to show what the sites looks like today. It is my understanding that it was on the former site of Filene’s Department Store in downtown crossing, if they still call it that. The building was torn down some years ago, I believe. I moved over 15 years ago.

    Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
  • ffcoinsffcoins Posts: 518 ✭✭✭

    @BillJones it’s a Macy’s now. Some imagination is required.

  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,239 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ffcoins said:
    @BillJones it’s a Macy’s now. Some imagination is required.

    The same was true when Filene’s was there.

    The Widener Building is on the site of the second Philadelphia Mint and the William Greene Federal Building stands were the first mint was. There are markers on those locations too.

    Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
  • ffcoinsffcoins Posts: 518 ✭✭✭

    @BillJones said:

    @ffcoins said:
    @BillJones it’s a Macy’s now. Some imagination is required.

    The same was true when Filene’s was there.

    The Widener Building is on the site of the second Philadelphia Mint and the William Greene Federal Building stands were the first mint was. There are markers on those locations too.

    I’ll have to get out to Philadelphia and hunt those down.

  • bearcavebearcave Posts: 3,996 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Wish I would have known about this in 2003 when I was out there, I would've seen if I could find the places. Had a fun time in Philadelphia.

    Ken
  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,239 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 26, 2019 5:44AM

    @bearcave said:
    Wish I would have known about this in 2003 when I was out there, I would've seen if I could find the places. Had a fun time in Philadelphia.

    The site of the second mint is near city hall. Given what I have read about it, it sounds like a stinky place that might have been a modern Super Fund Site. It was torn down soon after it closed in 1901.

    The first mint site is five or six blocks up and one block over, from side where the current mint is, from Independence Hall. It was torn down in the mid 1920s by Frank H. Stewart.

    The third mint still stands and is now a condo, I believe. It’s a distance from the tourist district, and I have never seen it.

    Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
  • 1630Boston1630Boston Posts: 13,907 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Some Hull Coins ?

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    Bad transactions with : nobody to date

  • 1630Boston1630Boston Posts: 13,907 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 26, 2019 7:14AM

    Location. 42° 21.321′ N, 71° 3.631′ W.
    Marker is in Boston, Massachusetts, in Suffolk County. Marker is on Washington Street, on the right when traveling south.. Marker is at or near this postal address: 450 Washington Street, Boston MA 02118, United States of America.


    By Bryan Simmons, June 2012
    Macy's (The Former Hull Mint Land)

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    Bad transactions with : nobody to date

  • ffcoinsffcoins Posts: 518 ✭✭✭

    @1630Boston said:
    Some Hull Coins ?

    You know, I checked on the ground all around where the mint was and didn’t find ANY of these!

    But seriously, I was actually just looking at that large planchet pine shilling on the “coins you’ll never sell” thread. Beautiful!

  • 1630Boston1630Boston Posts: 13,907 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 26, 2019 7:39AM

    @ffcoins said:

    You know, I checked on the ground all around where the mint was and didn’t find ANY of these!

    If you are still in the area, I know for a fact where one is buried. :)

    Oldest Time Capsule in US Unearthed at Massachusetts State House
    The capsule was buried in 1795 by then-Gov. Samuel Adams and Paul Revere.The Stunning Fate of the Oldest Time Capsule in the US
    https://youtu.be/NRmxv1oJO3Y
    https://youtu.be/La1ODMb64NM

    The folded newspapers appeared to be in very good condition. Also inside were silver and copper coins in various denominations dating from 1652 to the 1855, when the capsule was opened and then resealed.


    https://abcnews.go.com/US/oldest-time-capsule-us-samuel-adams-reburied/story?id=28064049

    Successful transactions with : MICHAELDIXON, Manorcourtman, Bochiman, bolivarshagnasty, AUandAG, onlyroosies, chumley, Weiss, jdimmick, BAJJERFAN, gene1978, TJM965, Smittys, GRANDAM, JTHawaii, mainejoe, softparade, derryb

    Bad transactions with : nobody to date

  • ffcoinsffcoins Posts: 518 ✭✭✭

    @1630Boston said:

    @ffcoins said:

    If you are still in the area, I know for a fact where one is buried. :)

    That’s so cool. Shovels are allowed on the T, right?

  • 1630Boston1630Boston Posts: 13,907 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ffcoins said:

    That’s so cool. Shovels are allowed on the T, right?

    Of course they are encouraged...................shovels come in handy when the T derails.

    Successful transactions with : MICHAELDIXON, Manorcourtman, Bochiman, bolivarshagnasty, AUandAG, onlyroosies, chumley, Weiss, jdimmick, BAJJERFAN, gene1978, TJM965, Smittys, GRANDAM, JTHawaii, mainejoe, softparade, derryb

    Bad transactions with : nobody to date

  • ffcoinsffcoins Posts: 518 ✭✭✭

    @1630Boston said:

    @ffcoins said:

    That’s so cool. Shovels are allowed on the T, right?

    Of course they are encouraged...................shovels come in handy when the T derails.

    Oh that shovel’s going to get a lot of use then. Too many pine shillings on the tracks, I guess?

  • 1630Boston1630Boston Posts: 13,907 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Very nice @steviegetz

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    Bad transactions with : nobody to date

  • ffcoinsffcoins Posts: 518 ✭✭✭

    @1630Boston said:
    Very nice @steviegetz

    Seconded

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I really like those old coins... Still hoping to dig one up someday.... my area certainly has the history that would allow for such a coin to be 'buried' somewhere around here... Cheers, RickO

  • ffcoinsffcoins Posts: 518 ✭✭✭

    @ricko said:
    I really like those old coins... Still hoping to dig one up someday.... my area certainly has the history that would allow for such a coin to be 'buried' somewhere around here... Cheers, RickO

    There was a guy that dug one up a few months ago. There were articles in all the metal detecting magazines about him.

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ffcoins ....Wow...that is cool...did not see the article.....Gives me confidence to keep trying....Cheers, RickO

  • ffcoinsffcoins Posts: 518 ✭✭✭

    @ricko said:
    @ffcoins ....Wow...that is cool...did not see the article.....Gives me confidence to keep trying....Cheers, RickO

    Well, one less out there, but I’m sure there are more! Here are a few screenshots of his Instagram posts about it.




  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ffcoins....Thanks for the pictures...great looking coin as well....Cheers, RickO

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