The E-Sylum:  Volume 10, Number 15, April 15, 2007, Article 31

COINS, MEDALS AND CORNERSTONE TIME CAPSULES

Dick Johnson writes: "Thursday this week coins were included among
paper items and DVDs reinterred in a cornerstone at the Chattanooga
City Hall. It is hoped these will be recovered in 100 years.

"Don't count on it. In hundreds of similar instances of recovered
cornerstone items have proved that water had infiltrated any "sealed
container" and all paper was moist pulp. Also will Chattanooga
residents of 2107 be able to read the DVDs?

"Only metal coins survive intact.  But this proves a point. Coins
can outlast all other artifacts as 2000-year-old ancient coins
document!

"Since coins and medals have such extreme longevity, how much better
it would have been for Chattanooga to have issued a medal for any
such memorable event. Medals document and commemorate the event,
plus it gives pleasure to the owners of these medallic items for
the next 100 -- perhaps 1,000 -- years.

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  Wayne Homren, Editor

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