Show COX > EtTICUT COINS NUMIS5IAT1S1S DEJ1OIITED OVER A VALUABLE FIND OF BAKE OLD SrECIMK Odd coins have recently been unearthed un-earthed In several elba of IheState in such quantities that New i ork numismatists have had their ntten Uon attracted this way The soil oC this old State Deems to hate a stra turn of old copper and silver money under It In the cellar of The old 1oster House In IxdyarJ has been found an Iron 110t partially flllet with copper and silver pieces all or last century coinage and worth no small sum of money They have been sent to Xcw York for appraisal It U supposed they were buried In the cellars more than one hundred years ago James S Cook of rroohL kde Uartford has found Jn the deep and fertile site of the Connecticut river which forms the north mta low an genuine old pine tree shilling shil-ling coined In 1G52 The coin was In Ihofcbelvlngcrumbling bank not three feet from where thu river is nearly eating into the meadow The spot is known locally as Capu Cooks fishing place where In ok times Uie sobers used to draw in loads of louuciug shad and where the colonists and later residents used to hold the oldfashioned 11th rlceOe Ixmghaudled fryingpans fUb sliced potatoes and onions and Santa Crux rum were tbeeatures oC these Jolly feasts The presence oC the shilling there shows that these carousals must hire been In vogue two centuries ago Edward ICeuuedy of Windsor has found another Uie shillings In the earth Windsor was one of the oldest settlements in the colonies These coins were struck by the Massachusetts J skp fil sachusetts Colony supply needed money and they ire very rare It Is a fact of history that the man who coined them was allowed onu In a hundred for his pay and Uiat hebe came very rich When his daughter daugh-ter was married wedding present br ulf = a her was her weight In shilling The coins are now sought for by 1nancler who pay large price for them Kennedys coin is a little battered It contains the abbreviated abbrevi-ated latin legend toe rude pine treeand the XII twelve pence 24 cents that all these pieces had with the date 1652 lITXeJring has unearthed a perfect Spanish quarter 177Gon the Pond farm In West Hartford S Louis Uve Democrat |