Five or six years ago I decided to take a drive to Cincinnati and try and visit an old dump site I had found years before on the banks of the Ohio River . When I made it down there , I discover that there has been a small parking lot built right on the river bank more or less not too far from where I was wanting to go . It was always a problem finding a place to park down there years before for fear of coming back and finding your car had been towed off .
I drove onto the lot and got out of the car and headed for the river bank which was more or less right off the black top parking lot . I only had about 150 feet to have to walk to get to the old dump site . I thought as I was walking that maybe I would get lucky , and possibly find a bottle laying in the bank possibly exposed from high water washing the bank . The thought no sooner entered my mind than I looked down and low and behold I saw a piece of amber glass sticking out of the mud . I poked around it some with my pocket knife till I was able to get hold of the neck and pull it loose . To my surprise it was an amber Coke bottle . It was a surprise to me because all the years I had dug bottles , not once have a ever found and old amber Coke bottle . Needless to say it made my day
When I got back home that afternoon I decided to see how well the bottle would clean up . In doing so I got another surprise to find that this bottle was not old at all . It is a 1986 centennial bottle as you can see in the picture below . Now what are the odds of this being pulled out of the mud on a river bank being a blasted commemorative bottle . So , still to this day I have never found an old amber Coke bottle . But I guess this was still a pretty good find being I did not find anything else that day . As for the bottle it is heavy just like the old Coke bottles are , not light like many of the other commemorative Cokes I have seen over the years , Has anyone else ever came across one of these ? This is the only one of these I have ever seen . Are they pretty common , or a little far and in between ?
I drove onto the lot and got out of the car and headed for the river bank which was more or less right off the black top parking lot . I only had about 150 feet to have to walk to get to the old dump site . I thought as I was walking that maybe I would get lucky , and possibly find a bottle laying in the bank possibly exposed from high water washing the bank . The thought no sooner entered my mind than I looked down and low and behold I saw a piece of amber glass sticking out of the mud . I poked around it some with my pocket knife till I was able to get hold of the neck and pull it loose . To my surprise it was an amber Coke bottle . It was a surprise to me because all the years I had dug bottles , not once have a ever found and old amber Coke bottle . Needless to say it made my day
When I got back home that afternoon I decided to see how well the bottle would clean up . In doing so I got another surprise to find that this bottle was not old at all . It is a 1986 centennial bottle as you can see in the picture below . Now what are the odds of this being pulled out of the mud on a river bank being a blasted commemorative bottle . So , still to this day I have never found an old amber Coke bottle . But I guess this was still a pretty good find being I did not find anything else that day . As for the bottle it is heavy just like the old Coke bottles are , not light like many of the other commemorative Cokes I have seen over the years , Has anyone else ever came across one of these ? This is the only one of these I have ever seen . Are they pretty common , or a little far and in between ?
