The coins that fell through the cracks.

DUIGUY

During the reconstruction efforts, coins were found underneath the wood floor.
Most interesting to me is the Standing Liberty quarter.

silverpop

pity those coins are damaged

coindeuce

I used to cross paths with a NY State Senator, whose father had owned/operated a number of coin operated laundromats when 90% silver change was the status quo. The father held a massive amount of the coin change in their household on a regular basis. After an accidentally started fire destroyed the structure, volunteer firefighters were reported to have raked/shoveled massive blobs of blackened silver from the wreckage.

mustangmanbob

One of my best buys was a "block" from a fire, black, nasty, with debris. It obviously was a Sterling Silver flatware service stored in a wooden box. The stainless knife blades were on top, and the weighted handles had melted into a goo over everything. I could still make out the pattern on the bottom, and they were still in neat rows, albeit fire damaged.

It was priced at $10, and weight, IIRC, in the 10 pound range. It went straight to the smelter.

Another was a large can of the nastiest 90%, ashen fluorescent green, clumped together, that I bought. My understanding was that some child / relative / of the seller, at Grandpa's house, had taken a lot of 90% that was "hidden" somewhere in the house, and dropped in coin by coin down the hole that covered one of the clean out traps on the pool. It apparently sat in heavily chlorinated water all winter long.

I did not check for VAM's of DDO DDR on that before it went for melt.

pcgs69

they look like they were in salt water. What was the total face value of silver found?

ricko

Yep.. looks like they are beyond restoration... too bad... still, finding a bunch of coins is always

fun... never know what may turn up. Cheers, RickO