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It was on Saturday that we found the 1804 dollar in the dry well of the cellar of the old Murrell farmhouse. We knew that the dollar was worth a lot of money, and Jibby Jones said he thought it might be worth a thousand dollars, which would be two hundred dollars apiece for each of us.
"But that's nothing," Jibby Jones told us. "If that John A. Murrell's treasure is buried there, we may find a whole lot of money -- perhaps thousands of dollars."