U.S. 1795 Time Capsule opend

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• RedstoneCoins Posts: 218 ✭✭✭

  May 13, 2020 10:05PM

  Cool!

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• ms70 Posts: 13,956 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 13, 2020 10:10PM edited May 13, 2020 10:14PM

  A message from 'His Excellency' Sam Adams and 'The Most Worshipful' Paul Revere to the 21st Century: Time capsule buried by the real 'Sons of Liberty' opened after 220 years

  Capsule was buried by war figures Paul Revere, Samuel Adams and William Scollay in 1795
  Was placed under a cornerstone of the State House in Massachusetts
  Only discovered last month during repairs for a water leak
  Inside were five newspapers and a coin collection
  Also a copper medal showing George Washington and some cards
  A silver plate had been personally engraved with a message from Revere
  Items will be put on display at the museum and then placed back in the ground

  They were the foot soldiers of the American Revolution, and are set to be at the center of new History channel miniseries Sons of Liberty.

  And on Tuesday night a time capsule buried by war figures Paul Revere, Samuel Adams and William Scollay in 1795 was opened up, some 220 years after it was first put in the ground.

  Officials at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts spent hours pouring through the 10-pound, corroded copper box and the artifacts inside.

  Among the finds were five folded newspapers and at least 24 coins - dating from 1652 to 1855 - including half-cent, one-cent, half-dime, 10-cent and 25-cent coins.

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  Good pictures on the website:

  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2899859/Scientists-spend-hours-opening-oldest-time-capsule-buried-real-Sons-Liberty-Paul-Revere-Samuel-Adams-1795.html

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• ms70 Posts: 13,956 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 13, 2020 10:18PM edited May 13, 2020 10:19PM

  

  

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• TommyType Posts: 4,586 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 13, 2020 10:36PM edited May 13, 2020 10:37PM

  @ms70 said:
  Among the finds were five folded newspapers and at least 24 coins - dating from 1652 to 1855 - including half-cent, one-cent, half-dime, 10-cent and 25-cent coins.

  So....Is the 1855 date a typo? Or was the box opened in 1855, and coins added to it?

  Easily distracted Type Collector

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• yosclimber Posts: 5,066 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 13, 2020 11:06PM edited May 13, 2020 11:09PM

  I remember this.
  Note the date on the article - January 2015.
  The box has been opened a few times and coins were added at those times.

  Threads from January 2015:
  https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/934757/1795-sam-adams-paul-revere-time-capsule-to-be-opened-today
  https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/935905/boston-capsule-cent

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• Bochiman Posts: 25,556 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 13, 2020 11:47PM

  Yep...what Yosclimber said...

  I saw the thing pop up on my newsmedia earlier today....I thought "cool" and then I opened one of the articles... FIVE flippin' years old. WTH was it showing up as if it were "new" now?

  Read the article and they had already opened it once, in 1855, and added "contemporary items" and then put it back. That's why you saw the 1855 in there....

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• winesteven Posts: 4,975 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 14, 2020 12:02AM

  @yosclimber said:
  I remember this.

  Wow, I didn’t know you were SO OLD!!!😆

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• Jimnight Posts: 10,846 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 14, 2020 2:27AM

  Nice!

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• yosclimber Posts: 5,066 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 14, 2020 2:48AM

  @winesteven said:

  @yosclimber said:

  I remember this.
  Wow, I didn’t know you were SO OLD!!!😆

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQxM5rJ-uiY

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• ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 14, 2020 6:29AM

  It is amazing how well the newspapers held up. Certainly a historical treasure, given who first assembled it and the contents....Even though it had been opened again some sixty years later. These old time capsules are so interesting. Not sure if it is done much anymore - it should be. Cheers, RickO

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• ms70 Posts: 13,956 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 14, 2020 6:39AM edited May 14, 2020 6:40AM

  @yosclimber said:
  I remember this.
  Note the date on the article - January 2015.
  The box has been opened a few times and coins were added at those times.

  Threads from January 2015:
  https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/934757/1795-sam-adams-paul-revere-time-capsule-to-be-opened-today
  https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/935905/boston-capsule-cent

  You know, I thought this sounded familiar but I wrongly assumed it was a different event since it's presently in the news. I guess it's in the news now as it's going to part of a mini-series?

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• SaorAlba Posts: 7,593 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 14, 2020 8:19AM

  Couldn't help but think of this time capsule disaster opened in 2007:

  

  Tir nam beann, nan gleann, s'nan gaisgeach ~ Saorstat Albanaich a nis!

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• CaptHenway Posts: 32,813 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 14, 2020 11:49AM

  @yosclimber said:

  @winesteven said:

  @yosclimber said:

  I remember this.
  Wow, I didn’t know you were SO OLD!!!😆

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQxM5rJ-uiY

  Watched this just now with my wife. One of our favorite scenes from all of moviedom.

  The movie itself is now horribly creepy, about a rich guy setting up a young girl as his sex toy, but Hollywood was very big on that premise in the 1950's.

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• 1630Boston Posts: 14,111 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 14, 2020 1:37PM

  @acloco said:
  Anybody know more info? Obvious numismatic items were in the capsule.

  https://youtu.be/LqyhtIC-eWk

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• Timbuk3 Posts: 11,658 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 15, 2020 2:18AM

  Amazing find !!!

  Timbuk3

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• carabonnair Posts: 1,451 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 15, 2020 11:07AM

  Is there a further numismatic write-up in the last 5 years? I would be interested to see better pictures or learn the varieties of the 1794-1795 coins especially.

  Gawain
  
  Pacific Northwest Numismatic Association

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