Silver Dollar Cache!!

[Neil in West Jersey]

I went with my brother yesterday to help him clean out his late father-in-laws' basement. We pulled out a locked metal case. We had found a set of keys earlier and luckily one was the correct key. We opened the box and found many bags of various sizes filled with Mercs & silver Washingtons & Rosies. But most exciting was a canvas bag filled with 119 silver dollars ranging is size & condition from 1878 to the late 1920's. They are all common dates, but what a discovery!

I didn't have a digital camera, but he gave me one coin as a souvinir.
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[John-Edmonton]

You are so lucky. Most of us can only dream of those happenings. You should write an artice for Lost Treasure. An article like that is right up their alley. Great Post!

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[awhitster]

n/t

 

[Uncle Willy]

That is mind boggling bud. You ought to do an article for the treasure mags on that one and make a cover photo of the find.

Bill

 

[Neil in West Jersey]

The retail on them is roughly $16 each (maybe $25 with the current market value of silver).

So that would make the total value somewhere between $2000 & $3000.

You can't retire with this cache.

 

[Uncle Willy]

That find would make my day. Better than a kick in the rump with a frozen boot. To bad no prize coins but nevertheless a mind boggling find.

Bill

 

[Uncle Willy]

Yeah they could get a cover photo with that find. That would bring them an extra $100.

Bill

 

[silvernail]

I don't mean to be a wet blanket but don't seem right to call something that's just stored in the basement a "cache." Could as well have been in a safe deposit box at the bank. Seems like a "cache" would rightly be well Hidden or Buried. Hell, I got little Stashes all over, including the bank. And cigar boxes. And maybe a jar or two. Never thought to cache 'em.

 

[Neil in West Jersey]

I think silvernail may be right. All my MD finds stored in my home office, bedroom, closets, etc....If I meet my maker tomorrow will my kids be posting my coins in a forum with the title "HUGE CACHE FOUND"???lol

I think that it is a vague term...

On the other hand who is to say finding the key to grandpa's safe deposit bank and finding god bars is not a cache????

 

[wag-jr]

yes but it's still an exciting find

 

[silvernail]

Yup. I plumb admire that kind of basement clutter.

 

[Maxwedge]

Thanks for showing it to us. Awesome. I love those silver dollars. Mark