But we don't have less kids, so I'm fixing up the attic for bedrooms. First, I put up the insulation.Where the floor meets the end wall of the house - the straight wall, not where the roof comes down to the floor - there's space between the floorboard and the wall, because of the 2x4 studs. I was cleaning out all the crap in there. In this case, I mean that literally. There were bats in the attic, so poop. Also some garbage, saw dust, whatever. And all the way in the most remost corner, where the floor, outer wall, and sloping roof meet, in that space below the floorboards between the end of the floor and the wall, I found a bag. Old bag, held shut by a safety pin. I thought, "So help me, if there's a human heart in here... Or if I open it and catch anthrax or something..." But hey, gotta find out anyway, right? So I open it. And there's these old, rotten leather, small change purses. Containing, all told, about fifty old coins! And I'm talking old!
-1818 US One Cent piece, in at least as good condition as the one here:
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-1817 George III coin that doesn't seem to have a denomination on it. Not in nearly as good condition as the 1816 shown here:
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-1893 Columbian half-dollar. Four of these, in as good shape as the one shown here:
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-1850 half-penny from the Bank of Upper Canada. Looks as good as the one shown here:
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-1866 one-cent from Hong Kong. Front's more worn, but back is close to this one:
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And a bunch of others. More Canadian coins than anything, except maybe the US Indian Head and Wheat Pennies. I haven't counted it all yet, so not sure.
First thing I did was call Damelon. He knows a bunch of stuff, and he's in Chicago, which is on the back of the Columbian half-dollars. I didn't know the World's Fair was there in 1893, which explains it.
I'm having one place about 10 miles away look at them tomorrow. We'll see what I've got here. It would be nice if I even had a few hundred dollars worth of crap, because the house didn't come with appliances. It would be great to have even the stove paid for.
Also, not likely of monetary value, but there's some religious medal/necklace thingies. And then there's this:
Looks like Jesus. Pix with my cell don't look good when they're close. Clouds are better. Heh. But this is really small. The container is only maybe an inch.
