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Cleaning a ship's hull in Galveston, I found a 1978 penny stuck in the growth
I was working a hull cleaning job on a container ship and my scraper hit something solid in the thick barnacle layer. It turned out to be a perfectly round, green penny from the year Jimmy Carter was president, fused into the shell of a big mussel. Has anyone else pulled up weird old coins or small objects from underwater jobs?
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william_harris23d ago
Honestly that sounds like a total waste of time. You're just finding old trash, not some cool historical piece. It's a penny covered in ocean gunk, not a treasure chest.
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the_keith23d ago
Right? Totally with @william_harris on this. I pulled up a crusty old bottle cap once and got way too excited for a second. It's just junk.
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