UNLOCKED! Safe Full of Coins Found in a Tennessee Farmhouse
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Interesting blog, last entry dated 5/1/2013 about finding a hidden safe in his deceased grandparents house, getting the safe open and finding grandmothers coin stash.
UNLOCKED! Secret Time Capsule Safe found in a Tennessee Farmhouse
UNLOCKED! Secret Time Capsule Safe found in a Tennessee Farmhouse
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Too bad that the Reddit commentator got it 180 degrees wrong...
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“Just so you know anything from 1964 or older is 90% silver worth about 20 time face value of the coin. $0.50 = $10, $0.25 = $5, $0.10 = $2.00. I also believe 1965-1971 coins of those denominations are 40% Silver and still worth more than face value as well. That’s a pretty good score even if half of those pre-date 1965 and not to mention those silver bars!! They’re worth about $22.10 per ounce. 16 ounces in a pound = $353 and those are most likely Kilos which are 2.2 pounds and worth $778″.
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Luckily, from the sounds of it, half of those coins do pre-date 1965. Also, from my interpretation of the images, the silver bars appear to be 1 ounce bars.
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I had to clean out a shed which belonged to my parents.
There were some small US and foreign coins which belonged to my sister,
who was not a coin collector.
The 1960's Beatles and teenage fan magazines she saved were worth more,
she gave me permission to sell them on Ebay, and we got around $200 for them.
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<< <i>From what I could gather. Just a stash of common modern day US Mint products...did not notice any gold though. I wonder if they were a Home Shopping network junky.
I saw an 1890s gold piece, did not look close enough to see what it was (obviously; can't even recall the exact date). Was the home shopping network around when "his deceased grandparents" stocked the safe?
I feel bad for the guy because he's going to get all sorts of emails asking about buying his stash, etc. and he probably doesn't have a clue what they're actually worth.
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<< <i>From what I could gather. Just a stash of common modern day US Mint products...did not notice any gold though. I wonder if they were a Home Shopping network junky.
Looks like everything in the coin vault was purchased from the Coin Vault ...
<< <i>I love stories like this. >>
so do i. it brings the kid out in most of us
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<< <i>I love stories like this. >>
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<< <i>Looks like the door of the safe also doubled as the clean-out plug for the sewer line
Coin's for sale/trade.
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Shame as a few plastic bags might have made a world of difference.
<< <i>I love stories like this. >>
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<< <i>From what I could gather. Just a stash of common modern day US Mint products...did not notice any gold though. I wonder if they were a Home Shopping network junky.
I wonder if there are still any stashes of coins put away in the early 20th century and still waiting to be uncovered. If so, they could be an excellent source of mid-to-upper-grade buffalo nickels and Barber dimes, quarters and halves, which were common back then but are scarce and valuable today.
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<< <i>How long until the IRS pays them a visit? >>
Exactly what I was thinking. I wouldn't advertise something like this.
<< <i>We have this at a locksmith right now as there's no key. The keyhole's at the bottom center, chopped off from the photo. Have no clue what's inside.
Hope it is not a body? Looks like a crypt.
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<< <i>We have this at a locksmith right now as there's no key. The keyhole's at the bottom center, chopped off from the photo. Have no clue what's inside.
Hope it is not a body? Looks like a crypt. >>
achbad the terrorist from comedy central is inside of it
<< <i>That's a beauty! Did it come out of a church? >>
Yup, once it's opened, there's gonna be some modifications. It's going in a Bar and will eventually serve $50 shots of whiskey.
<< <i>neat story, and probably a grand or two worth of silver, rest of the mint products would literally be face value. Luckily , nothing significant collector value wise was in there or it would have been potentially ruined. >>
Perspective is a funny thing. I looked at the pictures and the condition of all
thosemodern mint products was just about heart breaking. Junk silver is junk
silver even if you melt it but most moderns are a total loss with even a little
damage.
However, I'm familiar with modern mint products thaty have been through fire,
flood or worse and they usually are not a total loss and these don't look all
that bad. Modern sets are worth more dead than alive so it's just a matter
of separating the undamaged coins from the damaged ones. I'd guess about
half the BU coins can be saved and a quarter of the proofs. They should have
been stabilized in acetone right away.
I look at those mint sets and wonder if the collector might have sought out the
finest coins. These might have been Gem sets. ...Probably not, of course, but
in this number of coins there would have been a few Gems by chance alone. As
I see it we might never run out of "junk" silver but there is a finite and rapidly
decreasing number of moderns. The day might come when there isn't enough
junk silver to go around but with mintages in the hundreds of millions and most
of it still around we have years to start conserving it for the future.
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<< <i>That's a beauty! Did it come out of a church? >>
Yup, once it's opened, there's gonna be some modifications. It's going in a Bar and will eventually serve $50 shots of whiskey. >>
Church Lady ain't down with that, LOL
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<< <i>How long until the IRS pays them a visit? >>
Exactly what I was thinking. I wouldn't advertise something like this. >>
Why not? Those who abide by the law generally have little to fear.
<< <i>How long until the IRS pays them a visit? >>
There is no income tax on inheritances, and it's unlikely that the grandparents had more than $5 million in which case
estate tax would have been due.
<< <i>We have this at a locksmith right now as there's no key. The keyhole's at the bottom center, chopped off from the photo. Have no clue what's inside. >>
It's a tabernacle from a Catholic church, used to store the chalice, wine, and communion wafers. If any wine or wafers are inside,
you might want to call a local Catholic priest, as Catholics consider these, if consecrated, to be the literal blood and body of
Christ, and desecration is a really really big deal.