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Do you know any midnight gardeners?

JustacommemanJustacommeman Posts: 22,847 ✭✭✭✭✭
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I've only read about themimage

MJ
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Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......

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  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,128 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Don't know any, but once had a widow come in with 2,000 BU silver dollars in Mason jars, plus about 100 circ. $20's, that the dear departed had buried in the back yard.
    He dropped dead without telling anybody what he had buried or where, and it was driving the widow crazy worrying if her son had found everything. He dug up the back yard two feet deep from the house to the alley and from side to side.

    I told her that since they had exactly 2000 silver dollars, he probably bought two BU bags and divided them. This gave her some comfort.

    TD
    Numismatist. 50 year member ANA. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner numerous NLG Literary Awards.
  • goingbrokegoingbroke Posts: 1,410
    I always bury all my gold and platinum coins and keep a map of their location to find them later!
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  • ponderitponderit Posts: 1,544 ✭✭✭✭✭
    TD, great story! I actually know a lady who had buried a couple of hundred 10 ounce silver bars in the back yard. After 7 or 8 years she got worried about them, dug them up and sold them.
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  • mrearlygoldmrearlygold Posts: 17,858 ✭✭✭
    I had a customer once who bought some really neat early gold from me including a 1797 Small Eagle, Eagle in Choice AU, 1796 Eagle, etc. I guess there was $300-$350K worth ( yesterdays values ).

    He traded that material for different coins, including the 1868 16 piece aluminum pattern set that ultimately was auctioned by superior ( when Steve Deeds was in charge )

    All the registered mail boxes smelled like chemicals when they arrived . I was nervous opening them, even the postal person gave a strange look and had I been a stranger I have a feeling those boxes would have been scrutinized even more. Opened them up and the slabs were all half melted and you would not even read the labels on them. He had them buried in some kind of chemicals on his property. Had we not done the deal when we did, it was only a matter of time before that chemical had gotten thru the plastic and destroyed the coins.

    Coin's for sale/trade.


    Tom Pilitowski
    US Rare Coin Investments
    800-624-1870

  • BigEBigE Posts: 6,949 ✭✭✭
    Maybe he dumped kerosene in the area to keep gophers from digging them up -----------BigE
    I'm glad I am a Tree
  • TWQGTWQG Posts: 3,145 ✭✭
    Yes, if you mean the full moon harvest of October.
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  • curlycurly Posts: 2,880 ✭


    I'm not, but my mother was.
    Every man is a self made man.
  • tydyetydye Posts: 3,894 ✭✭✭
    I remember as a kid digging holes in the cold frame and other likely areas at my parents house. My dad told me that he heard that the previous owners would bury money. My parents had 5 acres. And in hindsight I think my Dad was just keeping me busy
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