News Story - Over 2 tons of gold and silver coins hoarded by man in Nebraska
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Saw this story on the news last night. WOWT News Story There's no mention if the value stated is just the gold and silver value or numismatic value. Wonder what the condition of that "buried treasure" in Nebraska was in? Wonder who bought it after the family found it? 
Guess I'll have to get the book.
Link to book site Here's an excerpt: "This highly unusual family memoir opens with these paragraphs:
Two tons of silver and gold coins, hundreds of thousands of nickels, dimes, quarters, and gold pieces. They were under our beds, in the kitchen cupboards, up in the attics, in the bottom of dresser drawers, in holes in the ground. My father was obsessed with gathering up these coins and hiding them away in any likely spot in the houses and garages and store buildings he owned in our tiny town on the mid-Western prairie."
Amazing.
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Guess I'll have to get the book.
Link to book site Here's an excerpt: "This highly unusual family memoir opens with these paragraphs:Two tons of silver and gold coins, hundreds of thousands of nickels, dimes, quarters, and gold pieces. They were under our beds, in the kitchen cupboards, up in the attics, in the bottom of dresser drawers, in holes in the ground. My father was obsessed with gathering up these coins and hiding them away in any likely spot in the houses and garages and store buildings he owned in our tiny town on the mid-Western prairie."
Amazing.
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Hand counting 2 tons of gold and silver coins? Amazing
LordM needs to be all over that country road!
Now only if he would have invested with Warren Buffet instead.
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<< <i>It must be the corn. I have 4,379 statehood quarters, so far.
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Droll, very droll.
There seems to be a lot of reference to the weight of the cache but no reference to what the orginal cost of it was.
<< <i>GREAT Story !!! Just checked Amazon, not listed yet but I want to read this book. >>
I have a copy, and found the story to be rather interesting. Ms. Johnson has sold her book at the last few coin shows here in Southern Maine (Portland & Brunswick). It has done well, I believe, all things considered.
Thanks for the link .......... it was simple to buy ... paid thru Paypal
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<< <i>This article is proof to me that this world is very small. The man mentioned in the article was my grandfather's business partner. I remember meeting him in the late 1960s in Palisade. >>
Now that is amazing.
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There's no need to buy a copy. She's more than happy to tell the whole story if you pause in front of her table.