I believe in being honest and I believe in in not being stupid. I'm sure I could find a way to satisfy both of these aspirations.
A couple of years ago a person in the next town over bought a home and discovered a big PVC pipe full of silver bars buried in the back yard while doing some yard work. I think it amounted to several hundred ounces. He contacted the former owner. The guy said, "I must have missed that one." I don't remember all the details but I think he gave the finder a reward.
I'm sure there are more than a few forgotten treasures out there still. I've been taking my dogs for walks looking for protruding half-rotten coffee cans..... but so far, nothing.
RE: "I'm sure there are more than a few forgotten treasures out there still. I've been taking my dogs for walks looking for protruding half-rotten coffee cans..... but so far, nothing."
Your odds will improve if you strap metal detectors to their backs -- just turn down the gain control when near fire hydrants.
My Micro Hoard discovery came too late. I bought a 5 gallon bucket of automotive hardware at an automotive swap meet. He had 10 +/- buckets, estate sale clean up. 5 gallons is more than a person can lift of steel hardware. Anyway, I put it in the back of the garage, and maybe a year or so later, got it out to have the hardware stripped and plated. Correctly marked hardware can bring big bucks in the auto restoration business.
Buried in it was about $200 - 300 face in 90% silver in a large bank bag, I forget the exact amount.
I think about what might have been in the other buckets.
Similar, but at a different time, a person was selling 5 gallon to 55 gallon drums of muck that was scooped up inside auto dealerships garage areas after Katrina. A lot of tool boxes rolled over and empied, and a high end SnapOn tool box can have 75K plus of tools in them.
@kbbpll said:
"Doing the right thing" seems lost on a few posters here, and I would not want to buy a coin from them. That attitude carries over into the smallest of transactions. What are you going to do if you found $10 million worth of gold coins today? Hide from the IRS and look over your shoulder for the rest of your life? Think about it.
Let's keep in mind the kids (or their estate) ended up with more than two-thirds of the auction result, more than the face value of the coins, and $6k each in 1935 was the equivalent of $112,179.42 today.
I would buy coins from any person who posted in this thread. There's doing the right thing and then there's doing the smart thing.
Yes I can’t imagine the excitement. Just think clearly in planning your next move.
I read a report once of some woman on a walking on a trail near a golf course practically tripping over a plastic blue bag. Upon examination it was full of $500 bills. She turned it in (otherwise would not have been the story). If a treasure seeker time traveler saw the story, went back in time and got it beating her to it I guess the story would just disappear from media like it never happened.
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..... and he said to the landlord "what coins?".
it's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide
I believe in being honest and I believe in in not being stupid. I'm sure I could find a way to satisfy both of these aspirations.
A couple of years ago a person in the next town over bought a home and discovered a big PVC pipe full of silver bars buried in the back yard while doing some yard work. I think it amounted to several hundred ounces. He contacted the former owner. The guy said, "I must have missed that one." I don't remember all the details but I think he gave the finder a reward.
I'm sure there are more than a few forgotten treasures out there still. I've been taking my dogs for walks looking for protruding half-rotten coffee cans..... but so far, nothing.
Thanks Brian
Please read all of Mr. Augsberger's 2008 book. Many questions will be answered.
RE: "I'm sure there are more than a few forgotten treasures out there still. I've been taking my dogs for walks looking for protruding half-rotten coffee cans..... but so far, nothing."
Your odds will improve if you strap metal detectors to their backs -- just turn down the gain control when near fire hydrants.
If nobody knows that you know, ya know!
My Micro Hoard discovery came too late. I bought a 5 gallon bucket of automotive hardware at an automotive swap meet. He had 10 +/- buckets, estate sale clean up. 5 gallons is more than a person can lift of steel hardware. Anyway, I put it in the back of the garage, and maybe a year or so later, got it out to have the hardware stripped and plated. Correctly marked hardware can bring big bucks in the auto restoration business.
Buried in it was about $200 - 300 face in 90% silver in a large bank bag, I forget the exact amount.
I think about what might have been in the other buckets.
Similar, but at a different time, a person was selling 5 gallon to 55 gallon drums of muck that was scooped up inside auto dealerships garage areas after Katrina. A lot of tool boxes rolled over and empied, and a high end SnapOn tool box can have 75K plus of tools in them.
I would have done exactly what the finders of the Saddle Ridge Hoard did. . . . Yeah, right!!
Check out some of my 1794 Large Cents on www.coingallery.org
I am sure a lot of hoards are found and discreetly assimilated, laundered by the finders and not reported.
One day there may be an ap that can scan an area or a planet and locate hidden / buried treasures.
what coins?
Hard to hold your excitement to your self.
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No one would know about it.
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I would buy coins from any person who posted in this thread. There's doing the right thing and then there's doing the smart thing.
Yes I can’t imagine the excitement. Just think clearly in planning your next move.
I read a report once of some woman on a walking on a trail near a golf course practically tripping over a plastic blue bag. Upon examination it was full of $500 bills. She turned it in (otherwise would not have been the story). If a treasure seeker time traveler saw the story, went back in time and got it beating her to it I guess the story would just disappear from media like it never happened.