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planonit
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Anybody have a not well known story to tell? I am not talking Blackbeard's Treasure or The Lost Dutchman Mine but the lesser know legends, myths, and rumors.
Just seeing if anybody has got anything to share. Maybe a small town gossip about the town recluse or a family story of Grandpa's buried gold.
Would think it best for it to be coin/bullion related but not a requirement.
Just seeing if anybody has got anything to share. Maybe a small town gossip about the town recluse or a family story of Grandpa's buried gold.
Would think it best for it to be coin/bullion related but not a requirement.
I have plans....sometimes
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jim
A local locksmith I deal with got a call from a realtor lady friend about moving a safe from a sold house that the new owners didn't want......Located under the stairs, he managed to pull it out after a bit of time and got it open.....12 gold bars and a bunch of coins left from the deceased owners.
http://news.coinupdate.com/whitman-announces-new-dave-bowers-book-on-coin-hoards-and-treasures/
much attention...... Cache hunters never tell....
My buddy, Wyatt, his Dad sold his house, TV repair business, cars, everything, (rented it all back) and bought gold at $35 / oz, in the 70's. One Saturday morn., I walked into a kitchen table full of 1 oz Krugerands, as Wyatt's Dad counted and organized his inventory. In 20 coin stacks. Menlo Park, CA. Covered the kitchen table with stacks. We briefly talked about it. I had no clue what he was talking about. I am not making this up. I was 17 1/2 years old.
I could swear I almost remember a member here doing something similar with silver circa 2003/2004 when silver was $5 ish. Now this is going to drive me nuts. I joined January '04, and had been lurking for a while before that. Does anyone remember a forum member talking about taking out a mortgage to buy physical silver? Is my mind playing tricks?
I absolutely remember thinking about the person when silver was in the $40s. I just can't remember if it was here that I heard about it.
about 5k worth of stuuf
http://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Avery
I've got a tree that traces every connection from him to me.
It shows that between him and me a direct ancestor of mine was a close friend of Hamilton during the revolutionary war era, while that man's brother was a Captain for the Royal Navy.
After the war, that part of the family (not my direct ancestor) had to relocate to Canada, while my direct ancestor remained in Delaware.
I'm sure that made holidays uncomfortable!
A year or 2 later, when I finally got the bolts dumped out for sorting and plating, there was an old San Francisco Canvas Bag inside full of 90%, mostly quarters and dimes, several hundred in face value.
I previously related about buying a large bucket of bolts at an automotive swap meet, one of about 10 buckets that were available.
A year or 2 later, when I finally got the bolts dumped out for sorting and plating, there was an old San Francisco Canvas Bag inside full of 90%, mostly quarters and dimes, several hundred in face value.
Wow.
Not coin related but true.
A friend of mine is a contractor for electrical work and does some house repairs on the side. He was replacing old wiring when he had to remove a piece of wall. This incident occured in about 2004 or 2005. Behind the wall was a brand new 1962 Corvette Stingray-all walled in the middle of the house-12 miles on the speedometer and still had the sales sticker on it. The one side of the wall would open directly into the garage, that is, if you removed the wall. It turned out that the former house owner was a salesman for a local Chevy dealer. He just stole it one day and walled it in the middle of his house with a plan to sell it after the statute of limitations ran out. I guess he forgot about it or changed his mind, got cold feet, or even died before his plan could work. Anyways, he died and no family member knew it was there. Made the new house owners happy.
I would be surprised if the "new" owners could keep it. Cars have VIN's, Vin's are traceable, and the title people don't forget.
In the last couple years, there have been at least 8 classics that have been recovered after 20 30 even 50 years of being stolen.
The closest one to the great story above was a 1970 (?) El Camino SS stolen off the delivery truck. It had every option known to man on it, LS6 454, etc.
It was stashed away for over 40 years, and the person who stole tried to register it, and it was seized. Statue of Limitation on the theft had expired, but the ownership had not. In that case, it was the insurance company who had paid the original claim to took possession and it was featured in multiple classic car periodicals before being auctioned off, starting bid was $50,000
I deal in classic Mustangs, and there have been numerous cases where someone buys a restoration project, even has a title, spends $$$$ restoring it, goes to register it, and it is impounded. Although they have a valid title in Texas, for example, the car was stolen in Kansas in 1971, and had a duplicate title created in Alabama in 1978. Before every thing was computerized, the stolen report from Kansas did not make it to Alabama, but now the Fed's data base put all the old theft reports together, and title transfers bounce off the data base. ''
The cars below were recovered 33 - 46 years after being stolen, due to the updated computer data base.
http://www.propertycasualty360.com/2015/06/09/allstate-reunites-customer-with-stolen-corvette-43?eNL&slreturn=1458741638
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-stolen-jaguar-found-in-los-angeles-20140917-story.html
http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2014/09/04/stolen-164-ford-thunderbird-found-33-years-later/
A guy walks into the store with a piece of PVC pipe, that was capped on both ends. The small section of pipe was full of gold coins! The dealer said he'd buy all of them and gave the fellow a check for $20K (MOL, can't remember the exact amount and this was years ago. As the customer was walking out, he asked the dealer if he was interested in more gold coins if he had them. The dealer assured him that he was a buyer of all he could bring.
The customer then told the story that he bought a house from the state as the old bachelor who had passed didn't have any heirs nor a will so the state was settling the estate. He lived there a year and decided to put in a garden where it looked as if there had been one in the past. His rotor tiller hit the PVC pipe.....and he found 3 other sections, each filled with gold coins!
I've since rotor tilled my entire yard but to no avail.........
Pete
Louis Armstrong
My buddy, Wyatt, his Dad sold his house, TV repair business, cars, everything, (rented it all back) and bought gold at $35 / oz, in the 70's. One Saturday morn., I walked into a kitchen table full of 1 oz Krugerands, as Wyatt's Dad counted and organized his inventory. In 20 coin stacks. Menlo Park, CA. Covered the kitchen table with stacks. We briefly talked about it. I had no clue what he was talking about. I am not making this up. I was 17 1/2 years old.
I could swear I almost remember a member here doing something similar with silver circa 2003/2004 when silver was $5 ish. Now this is going to drive me nuts. I joined January '04, and had been lurking for a while before that. Does anyone remember a forum member talking about taking out a mortgage to buy physical silver? Is my mind playing tricks?
I absolutely remember thinking about the person when silver was in the $40s. I just can't remember if it was here that I heard about it.
Yes, I do recall that story as well.
bob
Yes, I do recall that story as well.
bob
I remember people telling him he was nuts to A) do it in the first place and
Rumor has it that the gold was thrown down an old well which was once on site but has since been filled in and was never explored by the city before doing so. In today's money that is probably about $8.7mm in gold value, obviously more in numismatic value.
Latin American Collection
I told her it was from hardcore metal detectoring and went several times a week.
Instead of an expected geeky smirk she relayed a story of an angry wife who's doctors husband had been having an affair.
She chunked her 10 carat diamond ring into the surf in front of their beach house.
I looked once a week until joint issues made give up the hobby.
We have been close for years so I don't doubt the story.
Here is a story I heard.
I realtor my sister and I hired to sell our parents house in Denver a few years ago has been a realtor for 35-40 years. While he was helping us sell the home we talked. I mentioned about finding old coins in or around the property and house (built in the 1920's). He told me that many years ago he helped a buyer purchase an old home in Denver for $60,000.00. The house had been built in the late 1800's. The escrow closed and the buyer took possession of the property and home. He started to rehab the home and while doing demo work he found hidden inside of a heating vent a box. Inside the box was old currency, gold and silver coins. The total amount of money (face value) in the box was........... $60,000.00. The buyer got his new property for free.
I looked through every nook in cranny in my parents home. Did not find any treasure inside the home, but metal detecting the property I found multiple old wheaties, a few indian head cents and a 1964 D dime.