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Coins and newspaper... Sounds like it's stuff they just grabbed around the house before heading to the ceremony. Here's what's in the new one (to be opened in

• dmd 12y ago
  Yeah. My impression watching the ceremony was "so... someone literally emptied his pockets into this thing and called it a day."
• coldcode 12y ago
  How much would a newspaper that cost 2¢ then cost today?
  • pc86 12y ago
    Depends if it was the same one or not.
    • glxybstr 12y ago
      i imagine he was asking about inflation. using this inflation calculator (http://www.in2013dollars.com/1795-dollars-in-2000?amount=2 http://www.in2013dollars.com/1795-dollars-in-2000?amount=2), which doesn't support entering cents, to find that two 1795 dollars equate to $26.47. dividing by 100 gives us about 26 cents. a bit less than i expected.
• dsp1234 12y ago
  Call me sentimental, but the addition of a 150 year old piece of currency from the country you just won your independence from, along with newly minted currency of your less than 20 year old democracy, sounds exactly like the items that should be remembered. The very fact that these items are mundane and quaint to us would possibly give the people who placed these items great satisfaction knowing their newly formed country lasted even a hundred years. Indeed, if these would have been coins newly minted from the federal mint, then the act[0] that allowed for their creation had only been passed 3 years prior. [0] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coinage_Act_of_1792 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coinage_Act_of_1792
  • hoopism 12y ago
    I woulda preferred treasure maps... just me.