Found Some Coins

[wood714]

My mom gave me my uncles old Air Force uniform. She couldn't find the hat, so I was searching thru the closet that she has stuffed with cloths, blankets, and Rubbermaid containers.

Under a duct pipe that runs along the closet wall I found some coins my dad had hid there years ago. Mom has no idea why he would have put them there.

I found a 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 76 x2, 77, 78, and 1980 US Proof Sets. Also found a 1964 proof set with both Philadelphia, and Denver mint coins.

Found a box of uncirculated pennys from 2009.

I imagine the 1964 set is the only thing of any value. Still kinda cool to find them.

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[ralph7]

Might be worth a trip through the house and in the attic to see what else might be there. A metal detector could "look" under insulation and such.

 

[wood714]

Might be worth a trip through the house and in the attic to see what else might be there. A metal detector could "look" under insulation and such.

I'm wondering how much cash he may have stashed. They always spent the winter in Florida. Their house got broke into once. Lost some coins, jewelry, and a couple guns.

After that he hide the good stuff in a garbage can in his shed.

 

[Imissedagain]

When searching, look out for BoobyTraps, razor blades, snakes, Hoffa and Elvis.

 

[mike4sigs]

Do your research.
People still collect uncirculated coins

 

[DWalt]

Lots of those coin types listed on the well-known internet auction site.

 

[SmithNut]

Do your research.
People still collect uncirculated coins

Yup, that advice makes a lot of cents.....

 

[desi2358]

All of the Proof sets will have some collector value. Just not as much as 64 and older sets will. Coin collecting is still a popular hobby for many people.

I will also agree it might be a good idea to give the whole house a going over. If he was worried enough to hide those there might be other stuff stashed as well.

 

[wood714]

Still going thru a bag of odds and ends he had in a drawer. I know the .999 silver Stardust chip is worth hanging onto.

I was going to start a what is it thread for this. Then it opened up.

 

[Denverd0n]

My wife's father hid money in books. After he died we probably found $300 or so on his shelves. After her mother died, and we went through the rest of the books in the house, we found another $150 or so.


Good thing we didn't just give the books to Goodwill!!!

 

[dockmurgw]

Read this article, then look at your proof sets!

Rare dime expected to fetch over $500K | Fox Business

 

[LoboGunLeather]

Bought a house once from the original owner. Complete restoration/remodel project. Pulled up the carpet in a bedroom closet, found over a hundred US silver dollars laying underneath.

Another old house I purchased and restored years ago. In the attic I found a US Springfield trap door .45-70 rifle wrapped in oily newpaper. The 1884 model with Buffington rear sight and ramrod bayonet, still in excellent condition.

As a young police officer in a military community in the early 1970s I responded to several calls about old ordnance found in homes. Grenades, mines, mortar and artillery shells, American, German, Japanese. At one house there was a nearly full case of DuPont 80% High Velocity dynamite sitting on a shelf, nitroglycerin leaching out down the wall, over a workbench, on the floor. In the workbench drawer there were boxes of caps and fuse.

Couple of incidents with human remains buried in crawl spaces.

We never know what we might find in older peoples' stuff!