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The E-Sylum: Volume 10, Number 51, December 16, 2007, Article 27 NEW HAMPSHIRE TOWN CASHES IN TWENTY YEARS WORTH OF WISHING WELL COINS [An article from Portsmouth, NH tells how a twenty-year hoard of coins was recently cashed in. Too bad melting's illegal - the pre-1982 cents might have generated more than face value for the town. -Editor] On Saturday, the Prescott Park Board of Trustees, with the help of Boy Scout Troop 181 of Rye, packed up and transferred a stockpile of pennies, nickels, quarters and dimes that had been thrown into the four fountains in the riverside park with the hope a wish might come true. Michael Warhurst, the superintendent of Prescott Park, said he and the staff clean out the change from the fountains on a regular basis and had been storing them in five-gallon buckets for years. Almost entirely made up of pennies, it's estimated this chunk of change had been collecting for more than two decades. Brad Lown, one of the trustees that oversees a number of city trust funds, said he and a fellow board member discovered the coins in a park storage facility. 'We were just looking down here and saw the coins and thought they ought to be brought to a bank,' he said. The Prescott Park staff did a rough count and estimate the change is worth about $2,400. The money will be deposited into a fund dedicated to the care of the Hovey Fountain, known for its statue. Warhurst said besides regular maintenance, the fountain needs some repairs. While the park staff had the dirty job of collecting the coins, scouts Joe and Sam Allen, Chris and Camden Latimer, and volunteers Peter and Abigail Lown and Grace Gittell scooped four wheelbarrows' worth of dusty pennies into plastic bank bags for easier transport. After the bags were loaded into Brad Lown and troop leader Jeff Latimer's cars, the kids carried the bags into Citizens Bank, which had agreed to change in the money for the organization. To read the complete article, see: http://www.seacoastonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071209/NEWS/71209 0351 Wayne Homren, Editor The Numismatic Bibliomania Society is a non-profit organization promoting numismatic literature. See our web site at coinbooks.org. To submit items for publication in The E-Sylum, write to the Editor at this address: whomren@coinlibrary.com To subscribe go to: https://my.binhost.com/lists/listinfo/esylum | |
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