Posted on 09/03/2008 2:04:15 AM PDT by pennyfarmer
I personally dug up this "Treasure" and thought about what it meant to someone who lost it. I imagine that the dime was an emergency fund because it was solidly stuck to this gas cap. I really wanted to share it with the world because I think its a great visual aid. Feel free to distribute this image widely.
I believe that the cap is from a gas can. I have since removed the dime from the cap but am in the process of trying to clean it up.
I know that in the 20's one dime was about an equivalent to our 4.00 gas. Knowing that it makes me feel a bit better but knowing that gas was about one dime a gallon at one time puts things in perspective.
Let me know what you think of the image.
How is the coin attached to the cap?
When I was a Senior in HS, I could drive my car (Okay, it was an Anglia 4-cyl, but still..) for a week on 50 cents worth of Texaco...
(And I didn’t have to get out of the car to pump it myself... ;~))
Some type of adhesive or tape. Most items that I find that are close together are not adhered to one another like this was. I am not sure exactly but it was defiantly not the dirt alone that was holding on to it.
I actually had to use a screwdriver and try to be gentle with it when I removed it. Sometimes rust will hold things but as you can see the cap is not steel, rather sometype of copper brass alloy with chrome plating.
This must be like poetry. I don’t get it.
LOL
What would you have to stuff in your gas cap for an emergency gas fund? A $50???
It has never dawned on me to put any money in or on a gas cap. Maybe in the car some where.
People have done weirder things. I am sure there are things that you have seen that make you go “What???”.
You have to admit that it is pretty damn cool.
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