QUOTE(moneydog @ Nov 21 2007, 07:11 AM)

I have an idea in years past they used to put a Coin on the corner stone for good luck. There have been many found in England. Thats my idea about it.
Interesting, especially if there is a traditional precedent. Still, I find that an extremely old coin for an early American farmer to have, much less put under a foundation.
Out here, an Elizabethan sixpence was unburied at an Indian site near where Sir Francis Drake is purported to have landed in 1579. The current theory is that Drake gave this coin to a local tribe during his visit.