The E-Sylum:  Volume 8, Number 38, September 4, 2005, Article 4

COINS BURIED IN NEW ORLEANS?

Dick Johnson writes: "How many millions of coins were
abandoned in New Orleans as the city was evacuated? Did
collectors have to abandon their numismatic collections?
Were New Orleans coin dealers able to remove their inventory
in time? How about the coins that were left in stores, cash
registers and bank vaults?

While we have so many unanswered questions at this time,
the entire city may become a tomb for collectible treasures for
the future. Treasure hunters in a few years' (decades'?) time may
dive into crumbling buildings of the city like they dive into buried
sunken wrecks on the ocean floor in the past.

Meanwhile, coin stories are occurring all over America. School
children are holding "penny drives" to raise money for the relief
of the displaced persons. The best of these stories on the web
this week comes from Florida where they are familiar with hurricane
disasters. Peek at: Full Story

[One report seen on the Colonial Coins mailing list said that a
prominent coin shop in the French Quarter had been looted.
-Editor]

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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