After reading Russ's post about the Post Office I started thinking about how many PQ valuable coins
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various places just waiting to surface and dazzle the collecting community in the future.
I can see various scenarios, including:
a. Coins mailed 50+ years ago and lost by the Post Office suddenly surfacing in the garage of a postal carrier who retired in 1970 at age 55 and died in 2020 at 105 (along with thousands of other letters and packages he/she was supposed to but did not deliver), with the coins now worth 5, 6 and 7 figures;
b. Coins intentionally buried after being stolen and found after the thief died and his personal papers had a map showing the location of the stolen loot;
c. Coins lost as part of daily life (i.e. on the beach in Monterey, where a few years back a 19th century double eagle was found by a metal detectorist after a huge winter storm removed tons of beach sand);
d. Coins left in hiding places in a collector's house who died without his relatives/heirs knowing about the hidden coins and the coins then being found when a new owner does a remodel or tear down;
e. Coins put in a cornerstone of a building decades or centuries ago and forgotten until the building is torn down;
f. Coins left by an elder family member of large wealth in a bank safe deposit box (with the ownership of the box being shifted from bank to bank via corporate mergers and acquisitions) only to be discovered by a descendent decades after the death of the family elder [does Switt ring a bell];
g. Coins buried in the desert [on land owned by Uncle Sam] in the 1800's being discovered by a bunch of good old boys in the 1990's who take the loot, go to town, stop by the local pub and boast about what they found, only to have the small town paper run a story, only to have the story picked up by the AP, only to have Uncle Sam's dedicated public servants read the AP story, only to have the US Attorney and US Marshall step in and swoop down on the good old boys to claim the loot as property belonging to Uncle Sam since it was found on public land (this, to my understanding really happened);
h. coins found in a recently uncovered "Wishing Well" dating back to the 18th and 19th centuries; and
i. on and on.
Anyone have any good stories like this to regale us with?
I can see various scenarios, including:
a. Coins mailed 50+ years ago and lost by the Post Office suddenly surfacing in the garage of a postal carrier who retired in 1970 at age 55 and died in 2020 at 105 (along with thousands of other letters and packages he/she was supposed to but did not deliver), with the coins now worth 5, 6 and 7 figures;
b. Coins intentionally buried after being stolen and found after the thief died and his personal papers had a map showing the location of the stolen loot;
c. Coins lost as part of daily life (i.e. on the beach in Monterey, where a few years back a 19th century double eagle was found by a metal detectorist after a huge winter storm removed tons of beach sand);
d. Coins left in hiding places in a collector's house who died without his relatives/heirs knowing about the hidden coins and the coins then being found when a new owner does a remodel or tear down;
e. Coins put in a cornerstone of a building decades or centuries ago and forgotten until the building is torn down;
f. Coins left by an elder family member of large wealth in a bank safe deposit box (with the ownership of the box being shifted from bank to bank via corporate mergers and acquisitions) only to be discovered by a descendent decades after the death of the family elder [does Switt ring a bell];
g. Coins buried in the desert [on land owned by Uncle Sam] in the 1800's being discovered by a bunch of good old boys in the 1990's who take the loot, go to town, stop by the local pub and boast about what they found, only to have the small town paper run a story, only to have the story picked up by the AP, only to have Uncle Sam's dedicated public servants read the AP story, only to have the US Attorney and US Marshall step in and swoop down on the good old boys to claim the loot as property belonging to Uncle Sam since it was found on public land (this, to my understanding really happened);
h. coins found in a recently uncovered "Wishing Well" dating back to the 18th and 19th centuries; and
i. on and on.
Anyone have any good stories like this to regale us with?
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