4/14/18 Report - Hoards and Caches. Marx Pirate Lecture. Coca Cola Bottles.

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Three Vintage Fort Pierce Fla. Coca Cola Bottles.

Until the early 1960s, the town where the drink was bottled was embossed on the bottom of contour bottles. Many of us remember playing the "distance game" when we were younger; the person whose bottle carried the name of the most distant city was the winner. Many collectors are intent on getting every variant of those bottles...

"The last 250 are extremely tough," John reports. "I bought one from Lancaster, S.C., and at that time nobody had ever found one from there. I paid $25 and today it's probably worth $400 to $500."

John started collecting bottles about 25 years ago when he was digging at a home site and found several old Coke bottles from the 1940s. His collection has grown to include some straight-sided bottles and even some Hutchinson Coca-Cola bottles. Several years ago, he came across a straight-sided bottle from the tiny town of Buena Vista, Ga., dating back to 1912 or 1913. The bottle was one of several that had been dug up near Warm Springs, Ga., and until that time there had been no record of straight-sided bottles made in Buena Vista. Finds like this add to the mystery and excitement of collecting.

See http://www.coca-colacompany.com/stories/collectors-columns-collecting-bottles for more.

Whether it is coins, bottles, or whatever, you always you have to know a little something to identify rarities.

The three bottles above are from Fort Pierce, but each one has a different letter embossed underneath the town name.  Left to right in the photo is A, C, then S.  At this point, I don't know what those letters indicate.  Please let me know what they are if you know?

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There are more large hoards discovered than you might think.  They come from very different times periods, consist of various types of treasures, and are discovered in different ways.  Here are a few listed on a web site by the Littleton Coins Company.

1. The Big Sky Hoard was discovered in 2011, weighed 5.6 tons of Eisenhower dollars valued at over $1 million in the basement vault of a bank.

2. The Frome Hoard was discovered in 2010 and consisted of over 52,000 ancient Roman coins that were buried in a large ceramic pot.

3. A hoard of $5 and $10 hand-signed and numbered Alabama Southern States Notes in mint condition surfaced in

4. In 2000, Littleton's purchased 171 uncirculated Confederate notes from an original brick that was stored in a piece of luggage for many years.

5. Montana Hoard was accumulated by an individual who hid 8,000 silver dollars and other coins in his house walls and buried in coffee cans under the floor of his shop.

That is just the beginning. There are many more listed on the following web site.


https://www.littletoncoin.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Display%7C10001%7C29555%7C-1%7C%7CLearnNav%7CFamous-Hoards.html

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Watch your change and bills.  Just the other day I pulled out a bill from some money that I recently got at the bank to pay for an item at the dollar store and the clerk pointed out the "old-fashioned" bill.  It was indeed, so I took out another bill to make my purchase.  I asked the bank clerk if they check for older bills and she said they didn't.

At the same dollar store I once noticed some proof quarters that I received in change.

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The surf today is around 2 - 4 feet, along with a decent tide.  The surf will be steadily decreasing the next few days.

Happy hunting,
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