THE LAST CACHER SAID THAT BEES HAD SET UP A HOME NEAR THE
CACHE...BE WARNED! DISCLAIMER: BY SEARCHING FOR ANY OF MY CACHES,
YOU ARE ASSUMING ALL RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR ACTIONS. I WILL NOT BE
HELD RESPONSIBLE IN ANY WAY.
Here’s to “third time is the charm!” The largest, wooded park in
Mount Airy is East West Park. My oldest son’s Boy Scout patrol took
a hike back here and found a lot of animal tracks, etc. So I
figured, “what the heck.”
NONE OF THESE COINS IS PARTICULARLY VALUABLE!!!! MAYBE WORTH 10
CENTS TO A FEW BUCKS AT THE MOST. PLEASE ONLY TAKE ONE. If you
don't have any world coins, I did not put any Sacagawea, Eisenhower
or half dollars! This cache has a much larger container, so don’t
feel as constrained by the theme. Feel free to leave what you like,
as long as it fits.
The cache is in a small ammo can. You have to leave the main
trail and go through an area of waist high weeds that crosses a few
streams. the cache is only about a hundred feet from the main
trail.
Parking
N 39 22.978,W 077 09.894
There is a playground for the kids at:
N 39 22.994,W 077 09.856
Original Cache Contents:
United Kingdom – These coins built a world empire unlike any seen
before or since.
19?? Farthing (King George VI) = ¼ Penny
Old (can’t read date) Half-Penny (King George V) = ½ Penny
1943 Half-Penny (King George VI) = ½ Penny
1936 Large Penny (King George V) = 1 Penny
1940 Large Penny (King George VI) = 1 Penny
1964 Large Penny (Queen Elizabeth II) = 1 Penny
1963 Threepence (Queen Elizabeth II) = 3 Pence (pennies)
1962 Sixpence (Queen Elizabeth II) = 6 Pence (pennies)
1957 Shilling (Queen Elizabeth II) = 12 Pence (pennies)
1958 Shilling (Queen Elizabeth II) = 12 Pence (pennies)
1966 Florin (Queen Elizabeth II) = 2 Shillings or 24 Pence
(pennies)
1967 Half-Crown (Queen Elizabeth II) = 2 and a half Shillings or 30
Pence (pennies)
Although not included in the cache, next in line of old British
pre-decimal coins was called a crown (about the size of our old
Eisenhower dollars) which was worth 60 Pence and then came the
pound sterling which was a paper note and was worth 4 Crowns or 240
Pence. Is it any wonder that they changed to decimal where 1 pound
= 100 pence in the early 1970’s? I miss the old coins though.
British Commonwealth
1943 Large Australian Penny
1964 Large New Zealand Penny
1963 Large Irish Penny
British Caribbean Territories 2 cent coin
1945 Jamaican Penny
Mexico
1964 - 20 Centavos (Teotihuacan Temple on obverse)
1980 – 20 Pesos (Mayan Figure on Obverse)
1987 – 100 Pesos
1989 – 500 Pesos
1988 – 1,000 Pesos
Japan
1936 - 5 Sen (4th year of reign of Emperor Hirohito)
France
1923 - 1 Franc token from the Chamber of Commerce
1949 – 5 Francs
Greece
1959 – 10 Drachmas
Philippines
1972 – 1 Piso
Soviet Union
1961 – 3 Kopeks
Have Fun!!!!!