When Welsh farmer Ifor Edwards dropped his keys he called
in a metal-detecting agency. They found the keys and also 14 medieval
coins from the 14th and 15th centuries, according to a story
published Monday in the Shropshire Star.
Can you even imagine? Well, I can. My son was
digging in our back yard when he was a little boy and he found a partially
corroded coin with an 1800's date. Someone advised us to place the coin into a
slit, raw potato. We did and he put it in the fridge. Of course the potato shriveled
and turned black around the area that was cut.
My mom was very helpful and often folded laundry or hand
washed my dishes when she came for a visit. Can you imagine my son and his dad
when they went to check out the coin in the potato and both were gone?
Mom thought she was tossing food-gone-bad. The trash
truck was long gone and by then, so was Mom.
Do you want to know a secret? I am old enough to remember the first Mr. Potato Head game. The plastic pieces were inserted into a REAL potato. Eww, can you imagine storing that?