How many more like this out there?

[rexmerdinus]

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/08 ... -treasure/

I bet there's still TONS of silver out there in places just like this.

In a similar vein, I'm also a licensed gun dealer on the side. Every once in a while someone, usually elderly women with husbands who've passed on, will come to me about selling an old gun they have in their house and don't know what else to do with it. One lady here where I live recently contacted me thus. Turns out the 8 weapons she brought to me will probably sell for around $5k. One is a Luger her father brought back from WWII, and in BEAUTIFUL condition! It's not a rare one, but will probably go for about $1800.00. Just makes you wonder what other treasure is out there in the hands of people who don't even know what they have.

[Morsecode]

Seems strange the previous owner didn't see the pickle jars with the $700 face coins in the house.

But to answer your question...there's a lot of unclaimed treasure out there.

[Mossy]

Morse, some people just have a mental block regarding coins. They don't think of them as money.

[Tourney64]

1917 Walking Liberty Half Dollar is a key date.

[schockergd]

Happens more often than you'd imagine.


I got into buying out collections a few years ago as I can't really afford to buy at retail. I've run into some nicer lots ($1k-$3k) and have a great estate deal pending on over $10k worth of guns.

I did hear about a local guy who buried mason jars full of coins in the back yard. One lucky guy ended up with about $300k worth of silver when prices were $35 an ounce.

[jwadams429]

I live in an old house built in 1905.....Wtb decent metal detector, will pay premium for one that can read through drywall and old plaster.....lol j/k

[galenrog]

Problem with detecting through walls is nails, screws, electrical wire, and all kinds of other metal. Whenever my wife does a remodel many pieces of metal are found. Have never found any coins or currency hidden by previous owners. Would be nice if it happened.

[NHsorter]

:lol: I live in an old house built in 1905.....Wtb decent metal detector, will pay premium for one that can read through drywall and old plaster.....lol j/k

1905 is old? You must be out west. My house was built in 1750 and I have been on the lookout big time as I have had this-and-that torn apart. No luck here. Best find was a nice heavy 18K bracelet out by the fire pit with my metal detector. Took a lot of work digging up 22 shells to find it though. And that has nothing to do with age of the place. Had more to do with the big time party rats that lived here previous to us.

[rexmerdinus]

I once found an old large cent dated 1793 in the attic of an old house I was renting. I don't remember which die variety it was, but it had a couple of die cracks. It had been cleaned improperly, but it was a LONG time ago. I wound up putting it on the Bay, and it went for like $450.00.

I briefly considered feeling bad about not giving it to the house's owner, but through several related conversations it became clear he had no idea it had been there. Plus the guy was a jerk, so I considered myself a freelance contracted agent of Karma.

[silverstacker]

I was watching one of those "hoarding" episodes and they talked to the owner of the clean up service . I believe it was that junk service. Anyways, he said that he has found all types of valuable including old money, bullion and rare coins. He said he feels obligated to return valuables like that to the owners as it's part of his ethical structure. However, I'm not sure that the hired hand punk that's getting paid $9 an hour feels the same way.

[Zincanator]

Karma shows up at the strangest times. I bought a house once from a guy who restored old Mustangs into car show champions. Later I found a bunch of old original Mustang parts he left in the attic. I was tempted to sell online but just left them up there in case he came back for them. Eventually I sold the house. Many months after the sale, I realized I left an antique rifle that was my dad's in the same attic. I knocked on the new owner's door and they had no problem letting me climb up there and get my rifle back.

[Treetop]

and since Im a contrarian. The current idea of karma is rather new and out of the US. I forget the name of the group off hand that first pushed it thinking it would give the west a more holistic view. Anyway, originally it was generally the "best" and "worst" who had no karmic issues. This is the inner baggage we carry. You could be evil, and hurt people constantly, if you didnt hold onto the emotional baggage you had good karma. Karma wasnt a boogey man waiting to catch and punish you. Or you might be a good person and you have no regrets etc, good karma. Most people though hold onto the past in negative ways, even people with good hearts and that mostly do right by people, this is bad karma. This baggage is what would cycle back around in your life in negative ways. It is something we do to ourselves. or not.

Interestingly our idea of karma is now more popular even where this idea comes from then their own, but if you go back to anything pre 1940 or so that is what karma was for millennia.

[mrrosado]

I should check my walls my church is over 100 years old lol.

[cesariojpn]

I was watching one of those "hoarding" episodes and they talked to the owner of the clean up service . I believe it was that junk service. Anyways, he said that he has found all types of valuable including old money, bullion and rare coins. He said he feels obligated to return valuables like that to the owners as it's part of his ethical structure. However, I'm not sure that the hired hand punk that's getting paid $9 an hour feels the same way.

Thats what I don't understand sometimes about these hoarding shows when they do a cleanup. They obviously throw out valuable items that could easily be resold to pay for the costs. I cringed in one episode where they crushed a rare car. Even in it's derelict condition, some of the parts alone could've paid the guys property taxes he was delinquent on!!