UnderMiner
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- Jul 27, 2014
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Was cruising in my truck through a neighborhood that was having a garbage day last night. Just looking around for neat things people may have tossed out (as I do every now and then).
After ten minutes of nothing I happened upon a house that was being gutted. The curb in front of the house was piled high with garbage bags, furniture, and construction debris.
Long story short I looked in a few of the bags and saw some nice antique looking things so I tossed all the bags, about 7 of them, into my truck. At home I started to look around through the the bags and among a few really nice antiques and useful items I also found two plastic bags full of coins. It was someone's entire coin collection. The collection was complete with coin manifest sheets, magnifying glass, and separate boxes labeling coins from different nations.
In all I found 18 silver coins in the hoard, an 18K gold chain necklace, American and foreign paper currency, American and foreign clad coins, proof coins, many copper Canadian large cents, American Indian head cents (mostly early 1860's fat cents), handfuls of wheat cents, and an amazing rush the likes of which I haven't felt in a while.
My favorite finds from the hoard:
A picture of everything:
A red seal $2 Bill:
All the American 90% silver coins:
All the Indian Head cents (all fat cents except the one 1908 on top):
A couple Buffaloes:
Two 40% Kennedy Halves:
Wheat pennies:
The oldest wheat pennies in the collection (1910's on top, 20's on bottom):
Some Canadian large cents and silver half dimes (1901 Queen Victoria LC is my favorite):
The collection of mid-1800's Italian coins:
The 18K "750" gold chain:
A 1914 Italian paper note:
American clad, bicentennial, and proof coins:
The two bags of coins before I opened them:
Coin inventory sheets (A few coins that are on the white list are missing from the collection but the vast majority are accounted for)
The yellow sheet lists coins that I have not seen in the collection at all (which is a shame as they are the coolest coins):
Video of the discovery as it unfolded (red bag):
After ten minutes of nothing I happened upon a house that was being gutted. The curb in front of the house was piled high with garbage bags, furniture, and construction debris.
Long story short I looked in a few of the bags and saw some nice antique looking things so I tossed all the bags, about 7 of them, into my truck. At home I started to look around through the the bags and among a few really nice antiques and useful items I also found two plastic bags full of coins. It was someone's entire coin collection. The collection was complete with coin manifest sheets, magnifying glass, and separate boxes labeling coins from different nations.
In all I found 18 silver coins in the hoard, an 18K gold chain necklace, American and foreign paper currency, American and foreign clad coins, proof coins, many copper Canadian large cents, American Indian head cents (mostly early 1860's fat cents), handfuls of wheat cents, and an amazing rush the likes of which I haven't felt in a while.
My favorite finds from the hoard:
A picture of everything:
A red seal $2 Bill:
All the American 90% silver coins:
All the Indian Head cents (all fat cents except the one 1908 on top):
A couple Buffaloes:
Two 40% Kennedy Halves:
Wheat pennies:
The oldest wheat pennies in the collection (1910's on top, 20's on bottom):
Some Canadian large cents and silver half dimes (1901 Queen Victoria LC is my favorite):
The collection of mid-1800's Italian coins:
The 18K "750" gold chain:
A 1914 Italian paper note:
American clad, bicentennial, and proof coins:
The two bags of coins before I opened them:
Coin inventory sheets (A few coins that are on the white list are missing from the collection but the vast majority are accounted for)
The yellow sheet lists coins that I have not seen in the collection at all (which is a shame as they are the coolest coins):
Video of the discovery as it unfolded (red bag):
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literally . Probably a foreclosure. The people that clean the houses don't look at anything,just throw it out.
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