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| Owned by an elderly Oklahoma woman, this still-sealed canvas bag of 2,000 silver half-dollars struck at the Denver Mint in 1963 is expected to sell for $100,000 or more in an auction conducted by Rare Collectibles TV on July 27, 2023. Photo credit: Rare Collectibles TV. |
A canvas bag containing 2,000 silver half-dollars struck in 1963 at the Denver Mint and sewn shut there 60 years ago will bring a pretty penny for an elderly northeast Oklahoma woman who received the coins as a gift from her father a half-century ago....
Elderly Woman's Bag Of Silver Halves May Be Worth $100K+ (coinnews.net)
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A California family that pocketed $7.6 million by recycling cans and bottles in California has been accused of fraud by the US state. In a felony complaint filed this month, state prosecutors alleged that eight members of the family imported used cans and bottles from Arizona and recycled them in California.Over the course of eight months, the Riverside family some 178 tons of cans and bottles to earn $7.6 million through the state’s recycling scheme.
According to CBS News, the California Beverage Container Recycling, or the CalRecyle program, offers 5 or 10 cents for each can or bottle returned to one of the state’s 1,200 recycling centers. The program is funded by consumers, and only cans or bottles purchased in California are eligible for recycling...
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I've been posting about sites where coins and hoards have been found. I skipped most of the 1715 Fleet sites because they are already well known by most who read this blog, and I've talked about them a lot in the past. Today I'll mention the Fort Capron payroll treasure, which is well known by many Treasure Coast detectorists, but perhaps not as well-known as the 1715 Fleet wrecks.
The Fort Capron payroll was transported on the schooner William and Mary and transferred to a smaller boat that capsized while trying to enter the shallow Indian River inlet resulting in the loss of gold and silver coins. You probably know something about the coins and how they were found by a couple guys out lobster hunting. The story gets more intriguing as not all of the recovered coins were reported. Some have appeared in Sewick auctions, as well as other auctions and some are in the Florida Collection.
There is a 1968 article by Carl Clausen published in the Florida Historical Quarterly that describes the loss and recovery of the Fort Capron treasure, so I'll simply give you the link so you read more about it.
Here is that link.
Fort Pierce American Gold Find (ucf.edu)
Great article on an important local treasure.
For me, the most interesting thing in that article is the map showing the location of the old inlet.
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