Batkaz wrote:cornettracing80 wrote:i think the US one is east...wayyyy east....the original star spangled banner is at the smithsonian museum in D.C....
I agree east is way to go - i think the urn is the clue (it use to be on a wooden pole)
That must have been one sturdy woden pole... What was that other symbol of the American Revolutionary War???
100 paces away....
Well what do you know...It's still there
And no, it was not just laying on top it was buried in the center.
It was actually pretty cool. I walked over to the Liberty Bell door and thought well it must be here somewhere so what's 100 paces around here. So, I looked and saw a couple of seating areas. Went to the first but the planters were different. Walked to the second and saw the planter and got nervious, that I wasn't the first. Then I realized there were at least 4 of those planters. I walked over to the first one that I was closest too and with a stick I lifted some of the dead plants (It is winter...) and caught a glimpse of silver (too bad it wasn't gold
), but I really thought it was a gum wrapper or something else because it was just the edge sticking up. I reached in and pulled it out and was actually shocked that I was holding the coin. I immediately called home to tell my girlfriend, since she thought I was crazy to fly up to Philly just to get a coin that probably wasn't even going to be there. I told her I found it and she told me I was still crazy
.I know the people wandering around were wondering what I was doing taking pictures of a planter
I still can't believe nobody got there before me...