Incredible find under attic floor!

[Mark kus]

This guy lives near me finds lost items rings etc for people this is a cool story!

 

[fwcrawford]

Amazing amount of money they discovered!!

 

[u2robert]

Here comes the FBI to confiscate that ill gotten loot.
The bills have never been circulated meaning a bank job?

 

[Ronstar]

Not sure about that……. I believe one can still ask for bundled money if you are cashing out of receiving a large amount of money. I’m not sure about this but I think money destined solely for the banks purpose comes with a secondary band around it. Never investigated a bank robbery but responded to two. We sat on it until the regional FBI got there and thats where I think I picked that info up.

 

[Mark kus]

Here comes the FBI to confiscate that ill gotten loot.
The bills have never been circulated meaning a bank job?

Don't forget that was in the 50's when you could take large sums of cash out without raising a red flag.
Mark

 

[laplander]

Thanks for sharing Mark! He definitely hit the mother lode there.
HH Jeff

 

[fwcrawford]

It would be interesting to know more about how this money came to be here and never was retrieved by the person that hid it.
People find caches like this, but do not know the history behind it for the most part.
A friend of mine recently sold his Parent's house after his Dad died last year and the new owner found an envelop with $2.400 in it jammed up in a corner next to a closet door.
It was found while removing carpet in the room.
He called my friend and returned the money to him since he knew it had to belong to his parents as they had lived in the house since it was built around 1958.
The way that cash box was concealed, if these people were not aware of it being there, it may never have been discovered.

 

[Mark kus]

It would be interesting to know more about how this money came to be here and never was retrieved by the person that hid it.
People find caches like this, but do not know the history behind it for the most part.
A friend of mine recently sold his Parent's house after his Dad died last year and the new owner found an envelop with $2.400 in it jammed up in a corner next to a closet door.
It was found while removing carpet in the room.
He called my friend and returned the money to him since he knew it had to belong to his parents as they had lived in the house since it was built around 1958.
The way that cash box was concealed, if these people were not aware of it being there, it may never have been discovered.

Sorry there is a part 1 to the story I believe..

 

[Missouri -- Ma Betty]

Here comes the FBI to confiscate that ill gotten loot.
The bills have never been circulated meaning a bank job?

Silver certificates & are they new bills in sequencial serial number order? I would say, Definitely connected to a bank employee or even the President of the bank, himself! The way it was hidden someone definitely did not want it easily found--was there early death involved that the money was never recovered by the one hiding it? Lots of mystery & questions to be revealed & answered! Gov IRS will end up with it & finder will receive very little most likely --Not the way our greedy Gov is now & hopefully, they won't accuse the finders of stealing & owning it when found! More hidden money may probably abound to be found or brought out from many, many hiding places! The Great Depression caused a lot of suffering & people learned quickly not to TRUST BANKS! SAD!!! Ma

 

[fwcrawford]

One good thing is that only the guy that found the stash can be identified… not the others involved in the search…good idea they did that… no photos or details about the house either other than the attic..
I’m sure this was done on purpose for that very reason…

 

[Mark kus]

One good thing is that only the guy that found the stash can be identified… not the others involved in the search…good idea they did that… no photos or details about the house either other than the attic..
I’m sure this was done on purpose for that very reason…

Yep I was thinking the same like the couple who found the can of gold coins in California uncirculated condition after a mudslide they thought it may have been from a robbery some of those coins went for serious bucks but it’s hard to prove where they came from so some went up for auction..
Mark

 

[utmike]

Amazing! The only thing that could be more fun in this story would be "a note found in the box read thanks for the good time, D.B Cooper."

 

[u2robert]

One good thing is that only the guy that found the stash can be identified… not the others involved in the search…good idea they did that… no photos or details about the house either other than the attic..
I’m sure this was done on purpose for that very reason…

You can bet once they put the thumb screws to him he will sing like a canary.

 

[hawgdawg]

Really cool. I've done quite a few remodels on old , pre 50's houses ,, never found that much money before.
Tearing out some old kitchen cabinets,, I found 2 Standing liberty halves ,, one old house from the early 1900s , I found some old paper grocery store bags that had folded newspapers placed in the bags just sitting on a shelf in the root cellar. I started to just throw them in the dumpster,, but curiosity hit , and I started opening up some of the papers and I started finding some pieces of really intricate solid silver jewelry,, it was like really thin strings of silver poured into the shape of a lizard ,, and one of a butterfly,, and a few other pieces ,, still have them packed in a box somewhere. Have found all kinds of WW11 advertisements/ troop support doodads from local businesses in town from that era ,, with 2 and 3 digit company phone numbers . Found original sets of the old blue paperd house blueprints. One of my favorite finds ,, don't know why, ,,, but it looks like a 60's era photo of a fairly attractive mid 20s young lady posing topless out in the woods somewhere . Really nice ,, if ya get my drift ,,, but I kinda figured it may have possibly been sent to a boyfriend serving in the military over in Vietnam. Just a thought tho.
Sorry,, hope I haven't hijacked your thread here Mr Mkus ,, but doing my type of work,, doing the demo in those old homes is my favorite part of the job . Heres something I figured out a while back ,, if you're ever demo- ing in an old bathroom, with the old metal medicine cabinets that has like a little coin slot looking spot on the back wall of the metal cabinet,,, be careful if you remove that cabinet,, I removed one once ,, and tore out the wall down to the floor ,, and there were probably a hundred of those old double edged Gillette's razor blades. That coin slot is the disposal slot for them old razor blades.
Thanks for the memories.

 

[Mark kus]

Really cool. I've done quite a few remodels on old , pre 50's houses ,, never found that much money before.
Tearing out some old kitchen cabinets,, I found 2 Standing liberty halves ,, one old house from the early 1900s , I found some old paper grocery store bags that had folded newspapers placed in the bags just sitting on a shelf in the root cellar. I started to just throw them in the dumpster,, but curiosity hit , and I started opening up some of the papers and I started finding some pieces of really intricate solid silver jewelry,, it was like really thin strings of silver poured into the shape of a lizard ,, and one of a butterfly,, and a few other pieces ,, still have them packed in a box somewhere. Have found all kinds of WW11 advertisements/ troop support doodads from local businesses in town from that era ,, with 2 and 3 digit company phone numbers . Found original sets of the old blue paperd house blueprints. One of my favorite finds ,, don't know why, ,,, but it looks like a 60's era photo of a fairly attractive mid 20s young lady posing topless out in the woods somewhere . Really nice ,, if ya get my drift ,,, but I kinda figured it may have possibly been sent to a boyfriend serving in the military over in Vietnam. Just a thought tho.
Sorry,, hope I haven't hijacked your thread here Mr Mkus ,, but doing my type of work,, doing the demo in those old homes is my favorite part of the job . Heres something I figured out a while back ,, if you're ever demo- ing in an old bathroom, with the old metal medicine cabinets that has like a little coin slot looking spot on the back wall of the metal cabinet,,, be careful if you remove that cabinet,, I removed one once ,, and tore out the wall down to the floor ,, and there were probably a hundred of those old double edged Gillette's razor blades. That coin slot is the disposal slot for them old razor blades.
Thanks for the memories.

Very cool stories thanks!!!
Mark

 

[MikeO]

Lucky family there and the persistence paid off.

 

[u2robert]

I'm sorry but anyone who finds a stash like that and puts it out there like this is not to bright.

 

[fwcrawford]

I'm sorry but anyone who finds a stash like that and puts it out there like this is not to bright.

I have to agree…. I would have kept it a little more covert.
Hopefully this does not cause problems for the family.
I did enjoy the video though!!!

 

[hawgdawg]

What would the value be on an almost uncirculated Silver Certificate ??