CNN: "New homeowners found coins worth $25,000 in a drawer -- and then gave them back"
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What would you have done?
By David Williams, CNN
James and Clarrisa Munford say they never considered keeping the dozens of gold and silver coins they found in a drawer
in their new house.
(CNN)A South Carolina couple found a forgotten treasure while settling into their new home -- dozens of gold and silver coins worth thousands of dollars. James Munford was checking out the built-in drawers in his closet last month, when he found two cases holding 46 gold Liberty $5 coins and 18 Morgan silver dollars that were made in the 1800s.
He texted pictures of the coins to the home's former owner and made arrangements to return them.
"I was just thinking, you know, they're not mine. They're probably a family heirloom, so I'm gonna go ahead and make sure he gets them back," Munford said.
"We really didn't know anything about the value of the coins. We really didn't care, to be honest with you, we knew they were his," said Clarrisa Munford, who runs a catering business.
The home's previous owner, who asked not to be named, estimated that the coins were worth about $25,000.
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https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/18/us/south-carolina-coins-trnd/index.html
Comments
We’ve talked about it some here: https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/1047082/why-can-t-this-happen-to-me#latest
As someone said, imagine what was still in the vault that they didn’t forget?!
TurtleCat Gold Dollars
Just wait until the bodies are dug up...
Such things do happen. When my great aunt and uncle passed away in the 1970's their son sold the house. He was contacted by the new owner when he replaced the carpeting on the stairway leading to the second floor. There was considerable cash under the carpeting. It could only have been the property of my great aunt and uncle since they were the original purchasers of the house. The new buyer returned the cash to their son.
People who experienced the bank failures of the great depression often hid cash in their homes since they didn't trust banks.
Missed that thread.
I did a lot of searches, but 'Why can't this happen to me?" wasn't one of them.
I would have took them with me when I moved. The coins and the drawer they were in.
'The Sock Drawer Hoard'
What a label that would make...
POST NUBILA PHOEBUS / AFTER CLOUDS, SUN
Love for Music / Collector of Dreck
Any person with integrity would have done exactly what Mr. & Mrs. Munford did.
You do like starting threads with old news that have already been been hashed out!
https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/1047082/why-can-t-this-happen-to-me#latest
Do you like starting posts that have already been 'hashed out' in this thread? I double apologize for not reading the earlier thread on the topic. It will never happen again. I hope.
Don’t worry about it. Happens all the time. Sometimes the thread title draws different people.
TurtleCat Gold Dollars
Hopefuly you can see it was in jest!
It is a great story, and certainly deserves to be seen by coin collectors.... So a second thread will make it visible to those who may have missed it the first time. Cheers, RickO
smile and move on, jmo