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Coin found in Robert E. Lee time capsule

EagleguyEagleguy Posts: 2,264 ✭✭✭✭✭
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They didn't announce what coin it was.

Which coin would you hope to find if you opened it?

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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,425 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I'll guess that it's a Great Britian Victoria Jubilee shilling.

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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I would guess it is a confederate gold coin... Cheers, RickO

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I just read that the coin found was a silver coin...no further identification. However, they believe there is another time capsule box... since this one did not fit the description printed at the time of encapsulation. Cheers, RickO

  • mark_dakmark_dak Posts: 1,133 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Don't know if I hope it's any certain coin but I'll guess an 1861-O half dollar. The only official coin struck by the Confederacy.

    Mark

  • lkeneficlkenefic Posts: 8,169 ✭✭✭✭✭

    If its silver, I'd think a Confederate Half Dollar too...

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  • WillieBoyd2WillieBoyd2 Posts: 5,202 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Posted here also with photo of coin (page 3 CNN article)
    https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/1063184/crews-searching-for-richmond-virginia-robert-e-lee-statue-1887-time-capsule
    The coin with the book is a Great Britain Victoria Jubilee Shilling.

    :)

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  • EagleguyEagleguy Posts: 2,264 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I wasn't asking WHAT the coin is but what YOU would hope it was.

    JH

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  • AotearoaAotearoa Posts: 1,521 ✭✭✭✭✭

    2021 Morgan Dollar

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  • relicsncoinsrelicsncoins Posts: 8,073 ✭✭✭✭✭

    1861 CSA half dollar.

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  • No HeadlightsNo Headlights Posts: 2,072 ✭✭✭✭✭

    1851 or 1852 seated Dollar. Either works for me. :)

  • HydrantHydrant Posts: 7,773 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 23, 2021 6:35PM

    Yea, what a weird selection of items in that box......people are scratching heads trying to figure it out!.......Somebody has a sense of humor.......

  • kazkaz Posts: 9,219 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The box that was removed from the pedestal does not fit the description of the "time capsule" described in contemporary newspaper accounts, nor do the contents. The coin is described in the Times Dispatch as an "1887 Victoria Dei Gratia" coin

  • HydrantHydrant Posts: 7,773 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 23, 2021 6:37PM

    @kaz said:
    The box that was removed from the pedestal does not fit the description of the "time capsule" described in contemporary newspaper accounts, nor do the contents. The coin is described in the Times Dispatch as an "1887 Victoria Dei Gratia" coin

    Yes, I agree. I believe you are correct. I have my opinion about it all, but......whatever. We live in INTERESTING times......nuff said.....

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