Found this today buried in the basement

gumby1234

asheland

That stuff is cool!

Hydrant

Gumby.....was that something that you put in the basement and forgot about or something else?....... The reason I ask is this;....40 years ago I bought a house on a property that adjoined my property that I was living on. I moved into the house.....Then I went into the crawl space beneath the air conditioner to change the filter etc. I couldn't believe what I found!!!!!.....There were stacks of large cents in all four corners!....Nothing real valuable, all 1830/40's....over 50 coins!......I couldn't believe it!....What a bonanza for a coin collector!!!!....... Also, my cousin moved into a house many years ago and when he was replacing the old flooring he found a stash of $100 dollar bills under the old flooring.......Probably put there in the 1940/50's........You never know!

P.S. I want to add that I would have returned the coins to the previous owner but that was impossible. He was dead. Murdered in that house. Spooky.

LanceNewmanOCC

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cool find an IIRC, highly coveted. in the frenzy of the time we're in, i have to guess, even more so than usual.

gumby1234

@Hydrant I put it down there a long time ago. I was in the basement looking for my race car driver autographs. All obtained personally by me. Found some of them.

Hydrant

Yea, Gumby, I know where you're coming from.....About 10 years ago I was cleaning out the garage and opening old boxes. It was great!......My collection of baseball memoribilia! Long ago forgotten. And......so, so many coins that I took out of circulation when I was a kid!.....But the best part?........European coins dated from the 1880's/ 1940's... And Japanese coins! I couldn't figure out why I had them........Then I figured it out. My uncles who served in Europe and the Pacific during WWII saved them. I was a little boy coin collector so they gave them to me.......I don't remember but it's the only explanation I can come up with......

lilolme

ricko

I have boxes that have not been opened in twenty years or more.. Have no idea what I may find in some of them. A few have notes on the outside, but a lot do not. One day... Darn, I say that way too often... Cheers, RickO