I think I am going to plant a numismatic object in a home project I am working on…

Longacre

Longacre usually does not do too much manual labor at home. However, we are having the estate painted (I’m certainly not doing the painting), and in order to complete the fresh new look of the manor, I decided to change the lockset on the front door. The brass on the old lockset got really cruddy looking, and I was proud that I was able to change it out myself. I even had to drill a new hole through the steel door, immensely impressing Mrs. L.

I also am changing out the brass kick plate at the bottom of the front door. It just screws in and is very thin. I was thinking of buying an old piece of currency at a local dealer (nothing really expensive), and putting it behind the kickplate before I screw it in.

However, I am not sure if that is a good idea. For one, I think that people hide numismatic things in their house to ultimately be found by others at some future point. I am not sure if anyone would think to remove the kickplate if some future occupant decides to change the front door. I also not sure how a paper note will hold up (even if in sleeve) if it is wedged between the door and the kickplate and essentially outdoors.

Does anyone think this is a useless exercise, or perhaps 100 years from now, someone will post on the message boards how they found an old note in a front door?

SilverEagles92

Since it's the kickplate, and not somewhere inside a wall or under a floorboard, I'd say that currency would likely deteriorate over time.

seemyauction

If I was going to do it, I would not tell everyone where its hidden..............???

PrivateCoinCollector

<< <i>... immensely impressing Mrs. L. >>



Someone's gonna get lucky!



<< <i> ... Does anyone think this is a useless exercise, or perhaps 100 years from now, someone will post on the message boards how they found an old note in a front door? >>



Would have never though a note, maybe a beat-up half dime in the key lock area?

TwoSides2aCoin

Just tie a brown wheatie to a helium balloon and let it go.

Raybob15239

I'm building a new house. The basement will not be finished by the builder, I'll be doing that. I intend to place a 2008 State Quarter Set in the wall with a note, a copy of the newspaper for the day we take possession and some other items from 2008 (we'll be getting the house right before the election, so lots of possibilities). Sort of a little time capsule in the wall for a future owner to find when they decide to redo the basement.

MrEureka

I think Longacre must be running out of questions.

cladking

If the kickplate is on the inside then it sounds like great idea.

I'd encase it in plastic.

Another suggestion would be to save your money and don't use a numismatically
valuable piece. This is for several reasons but one is that there is a high probability
that the kickplate will end up being destroyed or scrapped out with the door; it would
merely be wasted.

Also there is a great deal more interest in things that represent "time capsules". A few
brand new one or five dollar bills would be of far greater interest and quite possibly more
value if and when they are discovered.

mrearlygold

Pour some cement for a patio and schtick a double eagle in it. My Parents did that with a half dollar in a house they built in Jersey. You being in Connecticut should be able to do so with a double eagle

keez

What about leaving it up in the attic to be found by a future owner. Maybe attach a note so they'll know it was left intentionally.

ambro51

I put two rolls of 1993 unc. quarters inside a wall last time I done major work in the house. In the "item" I build for my business, which will endure for many moons, I drill a hole and wrap a new nickel in aluminum foil and put in inside the "item". I dont know if it will ever be taken apart..but imagine the surprise!!

19Lyds

I think its a bad idea with a small probability of it ever being found! Kick plate are not moisture resistant and when the humidity gets high out their, its' sure to pick up some moisture and simply crumble over time.

Sealing a coin in conrete ain;t such a hot idea either since I suspect the concrete would destroy the coin. I know it destroys the skin on my hands when I come in contact with it so unless that $20 piece can grow new skin (like my hands) I'd say no to that idea.

Put it in a coffee can along with say two or three hundred 20's then put that in the bush next to your mailbox.


I'll pick it up tonight!

PerryHall

I used to put copper cents in an old fuse box.

lcoopie

I like the planting idea

i was thinking in a wall , when a hole presents itself

GTOster

I have been putting Halves under windows and doors on projects for years
And have also found a few under doors and windows when doing Demo but just cents
Kind of like pass it forward
Paul

Baley

When I plant numismatic objects (in foundations, cornerstones, time capsules under tree roots, within walls, etc) I always use this year's money, thinking no one will be fooled finding a 19th century object in my obviously late 20th century and early 21st century work. Plus, I consider all such objects gone forever and don't want to throw away anything good.

cladking

<< <i>I put two rolls of 1993 unc. quarters inside a wall last time I done major work in the house. In the "item" I build for my business, which will endure for many moons, I drill a hole and wrap a new nickel in aluminum foil and put in inside the "item". I dont know if it will ever be taken apart..but imagine the surprise!! >>




These already sell for pretty good money. ...Gems for much more.

renman95

I hide a red cent whenever I visit my Dad's grave. I put the coin (current year) in the dirt near the headstone. I will be doing this again in one week while on vacation in CA.

Ren

cape

I am a builder and in every stairway that I've built in all my new homes on Cape COD I have put in the penny through the quarter in the best condition that I can find for the date the house was built along with a newspaper of the date and a little note telling people who I am. I pride myself in my work and hopefully someday people will realize who I was !

Dentuck

A true aficionado of the science of numismatics and the art of woodworking shenanigans would carefully craft a secret hollow in his front door and seal inside it a gilt-paged, hubbed-spine leather-bound Limited Edition 2009 Red Book, individually numbered and autographed by longtime editor Kenneth Bressett. If he were especially enterprising he might arrange to have Bressett number and autograph the front door itself.

Dentuck

A true aficionado of the science of numismatics and the art of woodworking shenanigans would carefully craft a secret hollow in his front door and seal inside it a gilt-paged, hubbed-spine leather-bound Limited Edition 2009 Red Book, individually numbered and autographed by longtime editor Kenneth Bressett. If he were especially enterprising he might arrange to have Bressett number and autograph the front door itself.

reds

You may come home one night to a missing kickplate just becase they bring a few bucks at the scrap yard

DustyCoinbox

In the old movies, things are usually stashed behind a loose brick in the old fireplace (not recommended for bills or flammables) or under a loose floorboard.

sparky64

I've sunk a few rare 16 pennys around the farm here recently.