Mornin all.
1816. Year without a summer. Must have seemed the end of the world to some.
Crops? Good luck.
Civil war. Coins/money. Handy stuff. As it was post war too. Depending on type specie.
Doubtful much silver was tossed aside casually.
1918 flu pandemic.
Roughly a third of the worlds population infected. An estimated 5 million deaths.
Tales exist of family ,friends trying to help downed families. Till they were downed.
As a kid we checked out a pair of gravestones so far out in the woods we wondered why.
Today I wonder if it was deliberate isolation.
A coin could have gone far to the survivors following such disruption in productivity and the social fabric's partial unraveling.
1929 stock market crash and intro to the great depression.. Some people had money.
They were not crowing about it much though.
Or tossing it about frequently.
It was a body slam to the conscience. A dime would go far...
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Been some rough times.
Been some high times too.
That one thin silver dime (what year?) meant a full belly . Vs another day of the logistics of scrounging a meal , or at least something to eat to some. And at times , to many.
And here it is in hand after a detector found where it was when the previous owner had that bad feeling it was gone. Somewhere.
One cent.
Worth what when money was scarce? Or even in good times by it's date.
What's it worth is often a consideration when an old coin turns up.
I seldom don't consider first what it might have been worth when it came to rest pre-recovery.
Makes a cent or dime quite a recovery when history and context is applied.