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Two Sioux City girls have stumbled across history in a jar, literally. And "finders keepers" now takes on a whole new meaning for them.
It was a typical walk in the woods in the Morningside area for Mikell Zishka and Emily Palmersheim. That's before they found these rusty old coins inside a jar just lying on the ground. And they immediately knew they were anything but ordinary.
"I was excited because nobody really finds money in a jar lying around," said Palmersheim.
And Zishka says,"We sort of looked at them. They looked very old and rusty because like the mercury dimes you never see any of those dimes anymore or the 50 cent pieces."
It turns out the oldest coin is from 1894 and the newest one just from 1945. In addition to finding something cool and valuable, having the coins has taught the girls a history lesson.
"People would stow away jars for like after the great depression because money was getting scarce and the government was using all the metal they could for bullets for the warriors," said Zishka.
That's a lesson they hope to one day teach their kids as they plan to polish the coins, put them in a display case and pass them from generation to generation.
