Thar’s Gold in Them Thar Phones…

Intrepid amateur payphone archeologist extraordinaire Lana Swartz took a meticulous inventory of the bounty we discovered in the payphones the Leimert Phone Company bought earlier this year. She recounts her findings in “Transactions: a payments archive”. Read her story to discover how many coins were harvested, what else we found, and why were all these things left inside these phones in the first place.