enthalpy

Sunday, August 03, 2008


Note to plumbers: When you find $9,000 worth of silver coins while you're digging in someone's back yard, put them in your pocket and shut your pie hole.
Our story begins June 11. Plumbers were digging a trench to run utilities for a pool house and swimming pool on property Hodge had purchased adjacent to his home on Oldham Circle in Amarillo. Randy McMinn had a backhoe about a foot deep when on one particular scoop, mixed in with the dirt, was found a bunch of dingy little objects.

Work came to a halt, and closer inspection revealed them to be coins — old coins from 1887. Careful digging found a lot more in some kind of fine plastic, what Margaret, Hodge's wife, described as sort of an old version of Saran Wrap.
Metal detector sales just went through the roof.



Home