Wow! I wonder what the story is on this one.

A buried back yard find................hmmmmm

Steve

WOW!!

Very Interesting...

CC

Very interesting. Would like to hear the details of this find.

Looking at the photo leaves me curious about the holder. Is it a Capital style holder that has three layers of plastic, with the middle layer also being transparent? There is something about the ways the edges of the coins look in the photo that tells me they are either in a transparent middle plastic layer with holes in it for the coins to sit in; or the coins are in something like a Cointain holder and the Cointain holders are secured between two transparent plastic layers.

I'm guessing it was in some kind of box or container if true.

That's a crazy find

@TLeverage said:
If it was buried in the backyard, without knowledge of the current property owners, then it seems likely it was either buried by a collector and unknown to those that inherited their estate, or just stolen.

Either way, no one assembles a set like that and just innocently forgets that it's buried in the backyard.

I don't know. I have a friend who couldn't use banks because of legal judgments against him. All his money was in cash. He moved out of his apartment and into a house with his new wife...and completely forgot that he had hidden $1200 in cash behind the mirror in the bathroom vanity.

Another funny story: my parents' house had a fire in 1989. There were workmen going in and out for weeks fixing it. My father hid the "family silver" before the first workmen showed up. It was an emotional time. He could NOT remember where it was. He only found it by accident in 2005 when he was selling a piano and he saw it hidden in the back of the old stand-up piano. Had he not opened it before selling it, the person who got the piano also would have gotten the silver.

I'd like to know just how it was buried. I'm curious about the nice condition of the copper.

Sweet !!!

The story would be interesting.

Perhaps a collector left the set out and a child decided to bury some treasure in the back yard? Infinite possibilities.

I've told my kids to look at everything in my house when I die. I just found 3 rolls of silver in the garage that I don't remember putting there. Behind some varnish cans in a cardboard box.....wow, sure don't remember that. But, the house was empty, including garage when I bought it so it had to be mine.

bob

@ANACSPAUL said:
The set and story is legit, but there's more to it. The coins were found by the son buried in an elderly parent's yard.

The elderly unfortunately do very strange things.

Many years ago we bought a Chicago estate that included 4,400 gold sovereigns that were scattered throughout a trash-filled house with no working stove or refrigerator. A typical find would be 50 coins wrapped in tin foil then duct tape then paper, all inside a juice box which was itself wrapped in duct tape.

The attorneys searching the property called the police when they found bones sticking up out of the back yard. Somebody had buried a HORSE!!!!!

Cool story. Can't wait to see grades and better pictures. I'm sure there will be a better published story soon.

Coin World article on the set and the discovery.

https://www.coinworld.com/news/us-coins/2018/05/family-finds-1876-proof-set-buried-in-yard.html?utm_content=buffer3fd25&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=contentlinks

The Coin World article above lists the grades assigned by ANACS, following conservation for minor ink staining:

1876 1c: PF64 BN
1876 3c: PF64 Deep Cameo
1876 5c: PF67 Cameo
1876 10c: PF62
1876 20c: PF65
1876 25c: PF64 Cameo
1876 50c: PF62
1876 T$: PF62 Cameo

Apparently the former owner did in fact have Alzheimer's in his final years, and buried or otherwise hid most of his collection. The coins were recovered by his son.

When my in laws passed and my wife and I were going through their home, we found items of value located in hiding places in the home. When my father passed my sister and I found that he had stashed currency in multiple hiding places in his home. The realtor who represented my sister and me in the sale of my father's home told me of a story where he represented a buyer in the 1980's of a turn of the century home in north Denver. The home sold for around $60,000.00. The buyer took possession and was going to remodel the home and update it. While doing so he found hidden away in heating ducts over $60,000.00 in old currency. The buyer got a house for free.

You just never know what people will do.

I like this story, nice proof set. Kudos to ANACS.

Best, SH