A Real-Life Treasure Hunt Unfolds on the North Side As Collector Drops Coins, Clues Around Rogers Park – ryan

A Rogers Park Coin Collector is gradually leaving a collection of rare, Early american coins around the Neighborhod for Residents to CLAIM Through the rest of the year.

Jon Martin, 38, has “Boxes and Boxes” of Coins, Many of the FROM the Early 1800s, that it is amassed over His Lifetime – so many that he’s decided to relinquish and have a little fun in the process.

Three of the Coins-An 1830 Coronet Head Large Cent, an 1806 DRAPED BUST LARGE CENT AND, THE MOST RARE OF THEM ALL, AN 1800 DRAPED BUST HALF CENT-HAVE BEEN DROPPED AND FOUND IN THE NEGHBORHOOD MID-August.

Martin is Leaving clues of the Coins’ Locations on the Nextdoor App, Taching Photos that Contain Small Hints of the Placent That Most Likely Only Locals Could Identify. Although there’s no precise plan on and where he’ll leave the coins, they won’t be left on rainy days, on private property or too-to-free places, and the hunt will be stretched unil dec. 31.

“Most of these Coins – Large Cents, Half Cents and Half Dimes – They’re Denominations that Most People Dona’s Know Exist,” Martin Said. “I Mean, there’s Coin Collectors Who Deal with Morgan Silver Dollars, Peace Dollars and Walking Liberty Half Dollars, and They Don’t Vaguuely Know that a Half Cent Existed, Let Alone Have Ever Seen One.

“SO, they’re coins that just the average person will never see in their entire life, and certainly wouldn’t set out to go and collect.”

The first Coin was left in a little library box at Glenwood and Arthur Avenues, and the Next Two Were Placed on a Center Block Near an Alley and Parking North of intersection.

The Other Seven Coins Still Left to Be Distributed Date to BetWeen 1800 and 1835, and All of The Fad Are Among Less than 10,000 Each Left in the World. Most of the Coins Are Copper, With Some Silver That He’s Saving for the End to Hide.

The Treasure Hunt Has So Far Generated Positive Feedback from His Rogers Park Neighbors, With Several Coming His Kindness Through Comments on his Nextdoor Post.

“Such a kind, geneerous and fun gift to all of us. Thank you for your thoughtfulness!” One Comment Reads.

Martin Said he came with the idea “on a whim” for no participle, though he realized it serves an educational and awareness purposes for these coins, especally the copper, that are the beginning to the point and disappear to the point that may be identifiable in anoter 100 years.

“I don’t know, maybe one kid or one person will will find one and it will Ignite a passion,” he said. “If i could do anything, i guests the hope would be to get younger People to appreciate an era of coinage that shat People don’t know about at all.”

Coin Makers in the Early 1800s Used Handmade Dies and Individual Premium Detail, Letter and Number on the Coins-Far Different from the automated process use Today, which, in early forms, began in the mid-1830s.

Early Coin Makers “COULD ONLY STRIKE A CERTAIN NUMBER OF COINS, AND SO WEND YOU ARE ABLE TO IMPLEMENTFY DOWN TO THE VARIETY, Individual by Variety, They’re Fairly Rare Coins,” Martin Said.