4/15/18 Report - Ten Dollar Indian Gold Piece. Older Coca Cola Bottle.

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1914 Ten Dollar Gold Coin Find.

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Yesterday I showed some vintage Coca Cola bottles from Fort Pierce.  Here is an older Coca Cola bottle from Fort Pierce.  This would be called a straight-side bottle.  You can easily see why.

Straight-Side Coca Cola Bottle.

Around the top of the shoulder it reads, FORT PIERCE, FLA., then below that, REGISTERED 7 OZ.

Notice the bubble in the glass.

I assume it had a paper label at one time.  They don't very often survive, especially if they rolled around in the water like this one did.

Around the bottom edge it reads, PROPERTY OF COCA-COLA BOTTLING CO.

Bottom Edge of Same Bottle.

It wasn't easy to get good photos of this one.  On the inside was iridescent residue and the outside was rough, between the flea bits and irregularities in the glass.

Still I like this bottle.  It is a good example of an older bottle, even if it is beat up.

This bottle is close to the same age as the coin shown at the top of the post.

In early 1916, a committee composed of bottlers and Company officials met to choose the bottle design. The Root version was the clear winner and The Coca-ColaCompany and the Root Glass Company entered an agreement to have six glass companies across the U.S. use the bottle shape. The contract called for the bottles to be colored with “German Green” which was later called “Georgia Green” in homage to the home state of The Coca-Cola Company. It also called for the name of the city which was placing the glass order to be embossed on the bottom of the bottle... The weight of glass was to be no less than 14.5 ounces, which when filled with the 6.5 ounces of Coca-Cola meant each bottle weighed more than a pound! 

Even though the bottle had gone into production in early 1916, not all bottlers immediately jumped to change out their glass stock... 

(See http://www.coca-colacompany.com/stories/collectors-columns-collecting-bottles )

Here is a good link for some fine details of dating older Coca Cola bottles.

http://www.fohbc.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/DatingEarlyCocaColaBottles.pdf

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I have to unravel some more of the puzzle of the gold coin before I have more on that.

Back of the Same Gold Coin.

Better than average circulated shape for sure.  It must have been removed from circulation very early.

I don't know the story on that but am trying to get some clues and put it together.

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Just a two to three foot surf today, with decent tides.  The surf will decrease the next couple of days.

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