Cache Found Photos!!!

Well weant to grandpas today to get some coins he said he had for Leigh Anne and I. Well guess what, he couldnt find the milk cans?? So he said go ahead and search around the basement and take whatever you find.. Boy did we have a heck of a find... We havnt searched yet but heres Grandpas Cache... He forgot all about them> Said he doesnt even remember putting this stuff down there. I will update with more photos after the search is done.

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did ja find any marbles?

OPEN THEM DAMN THING'S UP WOULD YA ALREADY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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   OMG!!!!!!      Is there a chance I could be your Long Lost Brother?        ;)  Please keep us up to date!!


                                               Joe

I will keep you updated firs gold coins found

Dang man! keep us posted 

wow thats sweet, keep us updated

Unreal!!!!

Can your grandpa be my grandpa, too???   

DM

Well how cool is this! Your grandpa rocks! This is going to be great...now make sure you post plenty of pics and keep us updated on the story! This is fantastic for you!

    I'll trade ya my GF for that $3 Gold Piece!!!


                            Joe

i told ya you would find some gold
simce i encuraged you do i get a precent.....say a gold coin ;)

nice finds i hope you find some more gold  

[A wise old owl lived in an oakThe more he saw the less he spokeThe less he spoke the more he heard.Why can't we all be like that wise old bird?]

  WOW !!!! 

Heaven sent!  Open everything up already.  Lol.  Give us a fix!!!

HOLY BAJESUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WELL DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

holy,holy,holy cowwwwwwwwwww......this is gonna be awesome,,,,

[A wise old owl lived in an oakThe more he saw the less he spokeThe less he spoke the more he heard.Why can't we all be like that wise old bird?]

this is gunna end up in The Best Of i'm sure !!! 

Okay Guys this will be updated throughout the night. Its actually Leigh Annes Grandfather not mine. I am going through each thing of coins and then taking a pic. Thanks for all the great comments... I am stuttering, sweating and shaking, Heres the next pic. 34 total frankilins... At least one each from each year 1955-1963 A few years have three. There are tons more franklins but this was the first pill container I opened.

Dont know why those halves posted three photos? sorry.
Some large cents

Wow...edge of seat stuff!

CAT....I AM...(MUFFLED HEAVY BREATHING)....YOUR UNCLE!!!

Awsome so far battlecat !

         Congrats !

       Jeff

Blue

and red bills

Total Face value in bills 174.00

Thank you very much BC......That was killing me..........Totally awesome!!!!We need some more please......

Awesome great cache.  I see some of the finds in the pics.  But certainly seems to be a whole bunch more coinage in the first pic.

Certainly once in a lifetime stuff.

Congratulations,

Postalrevnant

I have so many rolls I will do each one at a time. This is a full roll of 1951S Franklin Halves

      That does it!!!!   I'm going back and checking my family tree. Branches or no branches!!!!
  You don't for a minute expect to sleep tonight.  Do you?!!
 Very excited for you!!   Can't wait to see the rest.  Congrats!!!    HH

A dream come true! Outstanding! Congrats!

Matt

Leigh Anne and Battlecat, my day starts early, I won't be here much longer.  I just want to thank you for sharing your wonderful adventure with us.  I feel like I am at the conclusion of a true treasure hunt.

You Guys Rock!!!!

DM

Amazing!! Can't wait to see it all.
Congrats and thanks Grampa!!

Smiles!
BDoo

You guys are great thank you for all the great comments... Leigh Anne is excited also, she has started coin roll hunting with me and maybe eventually she will get into metal detecting also.
Full roll of standing liberty mix dates

Full roll 1964 Halves some with some nice toning.

wow this is fun reading!  What an awesome time you must be having!! keep them coming!

[A wise old owl lived in an oakThe more he saw the less he spokeThe less he spoke the more he heard.Why can't we all be like that wise old bird?]

Man them are some excellent coin and silver certificates !! You guys hit the Jackpot big time ! I drool over your find.............. (me drooling) lol !

You need a webcam so we all can count and sort with you !!

manomanoMAN!!!!!!

I CANT STOP SHAKING!!!! 2 cent pieces

[A wise old owl lived in an oakThe more he saw the less he spokeThe less he spoke the more he heard.Why can't we all be like that wise old bird?]

  : STOP !! You are giving us a heart attack !! To many excellent finds at once can over load our treasure hunter within !!  LOL

But as they say keep'em coming !!

You two have to do something GREAT for Granddaddy !! 

Bank wrapped roll of 1964 halves... sorry about the metal detecting finger nails, but come on we all got em

W  W!!!

BC, this is just too flabbergasting.       

We will be checking with you every hour....calm down, Reddie (checking every 10 minutes..LOL)  don't have a heart attack.  I'm drooling too 

 ;) RR

[A wise old owl lived in an oakThe more he saw the less he spokeThe less he spoke the more he heard.Why can't we all be like that wise old bird?]

W  W!!!

BC, this is just too flabbergasting.       

We will checking with you ever hour....calm down, Reddie (checking every 10 minutes..LOL)  don't have a heart attack.

 ;) RR

Sorry River Rat my brain got short circuited with all the fine metal & paper being shown ! He he .I would be 50 times that if it were me that had found it.You wouldn't be able to get me off the wall for a month or two.

Hey battlecat we know about the finger nails........we like to carry a little bit of the ground with us all time . ;)

12 Dollars

                       CAT!  



                         WoW!


And you didn't even have to go to the attic!~  

Congrats you two! What an awesome Grandpa! Keeeeeep 'em coming!

                                  Nana  ;)

Another roll of 1964 halves

24 Peace dollars mixed mints and dates

   HOLY SMOKE$$$$$$$          

Being Australian I don't really understand the yank coinage-but i'm still AMAZED!!! holy cow thats AWESOME!!!!!!! Guess checking them all out will be a job and a half- but someone has to do it ay.

Have fun,

Jesse

35 more standing liberty halves

Quarter Is that a seated? not sure the name

Son of a monkey's uncle....this is an awesome post. Glad you could find all this stuff. I am drooling like crazy!!

99Brown

27 more morgans

Wow.  Can't remember any of that?!         Now do you really get to keep it all?  That is one sweet cache score!!  Thanks for sharing with us.  My grandfather left me about 2 morgan dollars and a couple other misc coins but nothing like your hoard.  Kennedy halfs nothing that great but love the 2 cent pieces, morgans and GOLD coin.  SMOKIN.

Mirage

25 rolls of mercs

I think I gonna be ill. So light headed. Everything is getting blurry.

THUD!

Dude that is a knock out of a cache......Cache of the year winner.

I believe a 1921 high relief peace... maybe someone can help me out on this one

Heres the deal... Grandpa said keep what we want and turn in whatever else for face value. He has been ripped off by family members in the past and we cant do that to him... We will be selling some of these coins and giving him the money and adding some to our collection. He just wants face value but we will give him more.

Son, you're gonna wear out the pages of your Red Book going through that stack !

Congrats on the find of a ifetime !

Diggem'

WOW! WOW! WOW!

I don't know what else to say but........WOW!!!!

JUST AMAZING!!!!

He must been a true collector!

 

  FANTASTIC!!!!  I wont sleep tonight!!! Afraid of drowning in my drool of ENVEY!!!!! CONGRATS!!!!!

Thanks for all the great replies... the batteries need charged on the camera, and Leigh anne cant stay awake anymore...looks like the rest will have to wait untill tomorrow evening....

oh noooo don't stop, i was almost there!!!!! oooooohhhhh






absolutly awesome find! congrats

absolutely fantastic finds.  Looks like grandpa was a collector in his day.  Thanks for not ripping him off. Have seen too much of that with this me me generation out there today.  Hope you show the rest.  HH Ted

SLURP SLURP
 i am drowning in my drool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
this should be under BEST of the BEST of the BEST FINDS !!!! 
i have never seen so many Mercs!!!

I will buy at face value.............................haha congrats would have been fun finding it with the detecter though....

Wow A INSTANT COIN COLLECTION! Thats really cool. Tsgman

    Battlecat:    So far I make it @ strictly Bullion Buy Prices (exc. the 21P)  to be roughly $3700.  When you start looking @ Dates & Condition, The Bucks should go way up!!!!!!$$$$$   


                                                     Joe

thanks I still have tons more silver to go through and will give you guys a final count once this is all done
I did make one mistake, I opend this shotgun roll of unc. 1964 dimes... im sure it would have been worth more left alone

ooops and thats a bunch of indians too, and another roll of standing

Hoooo BOY!  Nice find!  With 1,250 mercury dimes to pick from, maybe there's a 1916D there?  I can only imagine your excitement!

Hoooo BOY!  Nice find!  With 1,250 mercury dimes to pick from, maybe there's a 1916D there?  I can only imagine your excitement!

You took the words right out of my mouth!!!

    With all those mercurys, the thought just occured to me that you could be in great danger of Mercury poisoning. It just so happens that I have containers that I could put them in to contain all that awful stuff. And take them to a safe disposal site.
  I believe the disposal sites name is The Riviera. uh.... oh yeah!!  The French Riviera !   Yeah!  That's the ticket !!
  I think just that 1921 peace dollar is worth $35  just in VG condition.
  Can I come over and listen to them with my detector?  Pleeeeeeeeease?      Truely fantastic stuff you got there!!  Your grandfather had tremendous fore sight to save those.   WTG!!   Enjoy!!   I am!      HH

WOW cool stuff! PUT INSURANCE ON ALL THAT CASH!! I had a big coin collection... no insurance on it.. 85% of it was stolen 2 years ago I had to learn the hard way. 

By the way,that gold seal $10 note looks like a north african note... they had the gold seals on them. Hawaii notes had a brown seal, and a big HAWAII printed in black on the reverse side of the bills, and small hawaiis printed on the front I believe( if you have any hawaii notes in your stash). Hang on to the gold seal ones!!

GREAT CACHE!

start slabbing them and wear rubber gloves(keep the oil  from your hand soff them)!!!!!!!! and buy a safe that bolts to the floor not a cheap walmart safe either!!!

I checked again this morning, sure glad I did.

Amazing stuff, I love all the silver.

Your grandpa rocks.  I'm glad he let you open this and share it.

Thanks again.

DM

UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!!!!!

HH

ML

Congrats Battlecat and Leigh Ann !! What a great Grampa.  I think you mentioned in your initial post something about "milk cans"  did you ever find those??  Great stuff--the treasure dreams are made of for sure.

Dave

Now this is a great post. I have no idea how I missed this one.

Not only is the treasure spectacular but it also demonstrates how treasures are forgotten and left behind.

Your grandpa totally forgot about this stash and this sort of thing has happened 1000's of times over and probably all the treasure buried will never be found.

In fact, I once owned a house and at the time I stashed money up above the basement ceiling (dropped ceiling). A few years later we sold the house and moved away. It wasn't until 2 or 3 years later that I even thought about that stash again. It was something like $1,000. My guess is it was found long ago.

People get stressed, older, etc., and they simply forget things. There's plenty of loot out there hidden in houses and/or buried in the back yard.

Badger

Battlecat, She has one nice Grandpa!!  Don't forget to thank him and if you have, thank him again.  You're having way too much fun .  You would have more fun if you invited a few of your T'net friends over to help you get through all those rolls, I mean what are friends for?  (just kidding)

Too cool!!!!

Cheryl

This has to be the find of the year, by far.  I am absolutely stunned!!!!  Congratulations on the spectacular cache.

You must be tired after going through all that Battlecat. I think you need a rest . Why don't you take all those coins to the beach and count them. In fact you could walk along the beach as you count. Clear your head.
Great find.Has your grandfather told you any good stories about the coins? Just remember to always return to the hobby.  A few merc's
left in a park. Maybe a park where  mercs are rare. Like a park in Canada.
I don't know, let's say in Hamilton,Ontario Canada. Gage park, near the
first seat ,front row to the right of the bandshell.Next weekend,Saturday,noonish.......

Can not wait for the rest, my eye balls are bulging out, they hurt. Chin is bruised from hitting my desk. YEEEEEEEEE HAW!

What a cache! Must be a lot of fun to be cataloguing it.

What a dream cache... Blows away the collection I have.  Never seen so much silver in one place.  And the gold coins are awesome... can't believe you might also have milk cans full of coins too!

Wow

Thank you so much for sharing.

OMG that is the best of the caches. What an astounding amount of forgotten stuff, hope you find the milk cans also

Thanks for all the great responses!! I have to go to work now but will be back at searching around 5:30pm and posting photos... Hopefully We will get it all done tonight and be able to make a complete least of what we have here.
  About the old milk cans, Grandpa seemed real upset about them not being where they should have been. He believes they were stolen by the same family members that have takin most of his money. He had quite a bit of lave savings for himself but it was stolen by the people he loved. Its sad because now he has hardly anything left in his savings.. Lucky for Leigh Anne and I she has always been the one to visit Granpa and her Father has been the one to not take a dime even as a gift from him"cause he has his own money" as he says.  He asked us last week to come over and cash his change in for him and anything collectable to save for ourselves. Thats where I got the first 121 wheat rolls and 5 pieces of silver (quarter, 2 dimes and 2 halves) and was able to give him $501.00 from cashed in clad.
  I told him he cant just cash this change in its to collectable.. He said Just give me face value for it and I said no I will get you more than face value. He said okay but keep anything you like and if you can only get face value for the gold pieces then He wants to save them. I said you will get more than face value and he said then sell them.
  Also on top of the bills I said we found an envolope with $490.00 in cash from some Christmas card. He was thrilled. In one day we gave him the money from the clad and found the Chrismas card for a total of 991.00 back into granpas savings
  He tried to pay us for the first batch of coins we did and we told him that the wheat pennies where enough of a payment.. He wanted to argue but we had this stuff already in the car so we made a quick get away.
Off to work, but will be nice and leave ya with a treat, two mor pics to tied ya over.
 two rolls 1968d halves and one roll of 1943 S nickels

I might as well just leave work as my productivity has been totally compromised. I might do that as soon as I pick my jaw up off the floor. What a find....

Curious -- What is the most recent date found so far? Is it the 68?

[A wise old owl lived in an oakThe more he saw the less he spokeThe less he spoke the more he heard.Why can't we all be like that wise old bird?]

Here it is on The Best Of !!!! I knew it ! Congrats !! 

...................i.............uh........well.. ..............


                    .......................................what.... happened..................there were.....all these ...........coins...........then............

GREAT STUFF, You just never know whats coming your way.  congrats

LOL you guys crack me up... Well needless to say I weant to work and could not think straight!! I *cough cough*... felt like I was coming down with something. So here I am, back at home... searching coins and again posting them for you guys:)

Nice cache!!! My wife's g-ma had a stash like this from her husband. He passed 20 years ago, and she didn't touch it. It was quite exciting to go through, but not nearly as exciting as what you have here!! Those silver certificates look nice!!

      Don't know if anybody answered your question on the quarter. 
  Yes, it's a seated quarter. I see on the net that an 1874 plain with arrows, like yours. Is aprox $12 in good condition and an 1874s with arrows is aprox. $16 in good condition.      HH

Boy this is getting all so confusing I have made a list of everything I posted and set all those Items aside, and I still have tons of full halve rolls marked standing and 64. Also there is a ton of silver quarters but Leigh anne seperated those in envelopes by year and mint marks and she would kill me if I took them all out.
I am going to lunch around three but we will be back. I will hopefully have them all sorted and give a final tally of all coins be the end of tonight.

A roll of 1943 S standing

3 more rolls of Franklins

AN uncirculated roll of 1964 halves

BC - somehow I had a hunch we'd see you back at it before quittin time.

Hard to keep your head in your work with this kind of thing waiting at home............

(I think I would have had some sort of crisis at home that I would have had to leave work to deal with  )


Enjoy


Diggem

wooooohoooooo Grandpa, what a haul!!!   Thank goodness the price of silver is rising again.  You could give grandpa a tidy sum and have a little left over for yourselves.  Well, I haven't seen that much silver coinage since 1964.  And those silver certificates...too bad they weren't turned in for silver when the opportunity was available.  But maybe they are worth more now?  I'm not aware of collector currency prices, so I will defer to the experts online here. 

Anyhow, a big "way to go, grandpa" and congratulations to your gf and you.   

Okay I know you guys like photos but heres what im going to do... I really need to start organizing this stuff and go through dates and mint marks and everything so Im going to seperate everything by type and give you a list of what I have. Then I will take some nice pictures in the end. Thanks

WOW!!!

Seems to cover it!  Grandpa's got some classy grandkids!

That's a good idea, Battlecat.  Catalog away!!!!

DM

   I JUST FOUND THIS POST!!!!!!!

     AMAZING FINDS BATTLECAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    IF YOU KNEW HOW MANY OF US HAVE DREAMED OF FINING SOMETHING LIKE THAT...

    CONGRADULATIONS!!!

    THATS GOT TO BE THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS IN COINS WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    THAT IS AN AMAZING CATCH, I CANT EVEN DESCRIBE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    AND I WAS JUST THINKING TO MYSELF, ONE DAY SOMEONE ON TN IS GONNA FIND SOMETHING LIKE THIS AND HERE IS IS!!!!!!!!!

       CONGRATS AGAIN BATTLECAT  HH THROUGH THOSE COINS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                -CC

The unofficial final tally Most of whats left looks like clad so here we go.

Gold
1-one dollar gold piece
1 two and a half dollar gold piece

Walking halves - 336

Franklins -182

JFK 1964- 140

JFK 1967-1969- 171

Mercs- 1382

pre 1964 Rosi dimes-449

Large cent-5

2 cent pieces-5

Ikes-42

Morgans-39
Peace-25

War nickels-40

V nickels- 2

Indian heads-268

Quarters... Leigh Anne has each date seperate in envelopes, and I dare not touch... guess 150

A bunch of clad not totaled yet

    WOW! 

         -CC

Could ya' spare a man ten bucks in silver coin for a cup of Joe?  ;) Montease

Truely Awesome.  Granddad was a true collector, for sure.  He sure knew what to save for his grandaughter.

Thanks for the wonderful experience.

DM

[A wise old owl lived in an oakThe more he saw the less he spokeThe less he spoke the more he heard.Why can't we all be like that wise old bird?]

Excellent ! 

well over $1000 there

HOLY CRAP.   Im in absolute awe. Those finds are amazing. Truly breath taking. Way to go.

you need to do the 'ol boy SOLID
get the more vaued ones graded and slabed(sent away pcgs)
then sell them and give him all the dough
then you 3 sit around and make a pizza 

Battlecat, after you catch your breath and start thinking of selling the coins I would recommend ebay.  Now as to how to divide up the lots I'm not too sure.  And of coarse don't forget to keep a few for yourself.  ;)

 I'm glad you are looking after your grandfather.  Your kindness will come back to you someday.

Curious as to the Indian Heads - probably mostly late 1800's and a lot of the 1907,1905, etc.  Any good IH dates?  Nice 1860's and 1870's IH's go for some good $$$$.

Mirage

    Don't discount the clad as just clad, without looking them over first.
 This man knew what he was doing. So some of it could be mint errors or certain variaties and so on.  Even clad has it's rare coins.     HH

Yikes!  I'm gonna be dreaming about those boxes and their contents for the next few weeks.  I'm absolutely not complaining, I'm just wishing I had the opportunity to run my fingers through some cache like that.  Holy crap, that is some kinda great coinage and currency.  The stuff of which dreams are made (and seldom realized).

Girlfriend's grandpa should be even more appreciated now, and for the remainder of his long and healthy life, for his foresight and generosity.  The man is my newest hero!!!   Ah, the elderly, truly our "treasure" and the one most often overlooked.  Ask grandpa if he remembers the locations of any outdoor dance floors or picnic grounds or ballfields or any other place people may have lost coins long ago.  Then do your research.  I'm telling you, grandpa may be a true "gold mine" of information.  Give it a try, it probably can't hurt him or you and gf.

I believe a 1921 high relief peace... maybe someone can help me out on this one

Looks like it.

That list is stunning! Wow 

Best of luck with that. If you need someone to sell stuff to, let me know. I know some people who would be interested, and would pay fair prices for whatever you got.

Oh, and don't open anymore uncirc rolls!!

BRILLIANT!!!!

What really stands out here is your honesty. I'd take you as a grandson any day!!!
Its good to hear of true thoughtfulness these days.

Keep up the good work.

Jesse

Feel that?  That is my drool hitting the screen!  Speechless!  Thanks for the picks they are great to see!!!

Thanks guys I will be searching the clad also.. There is also 150 more rolls of wheats to search, thats a totol of over 270 rolls of wheats.
I found a little box last night that had 4 1909 wheats two of them with vdb but no s mint mark. also the mercs are all sorted 6 1916 but none with a d ledgable.. All worn around the edeges so if one was a d we will never know

    I'm really, really stoked about this for you guys.
  Now about these adoption papers I have here for your family to sign........          HH

I have just started setting up auctions in turbo list and will be uploading them to ebay later today.
I will provide a link in the sale section here for everyone. Dont worry I pulled some for Leigh and I,(Grandpas Wishes), and also spoke to him last night about selling some of it.. He still insists he would be happy with face value, and I still refuse to give only face value.. Boy we are almost identical. We are both Stuborn as heck
as is Leigh Annes father... No wonder she loves me, Im just like the two most important men in her life!
  I know a few of you are not happy that im selling this stuff, But the man had 30k in the bank a few years ago and family members have taken advantage of him and left him with less then 2k, And if you saw the look on his face when we brought over the 501.00 from the first batch of clad ( yes we searched through it first) Then most of you would do the same
  Thanks for sharing the first night of this find with me. All of those that were on saw it as I did.. I would take out 2 or three items and post a few photos and read the great comments, then go back and take 3 more photos and so on. It was like you guys were here with me, opening everything while I was. It was great and lots of fun!!

Thanks for letting us be a part of your family for a few days, I'm sure that everyone feels as I do and could not wait for the next post. You are good people, even if you could not keep it all , just the pleasure of being able to discover each and every coin and certificate is a memory that will last many lifetimes, not only in your families but in ours.
Thank You,
Kim

This is a whole life of treasure hunting all in one day  Keep the pictures coming....

God bless
Peter

[John 3:16]

Awesome discovery, battlecat.  I'm away from the forum for a couple days and you spring this while I'm gone??? Man.  What am I going to do.   I almost missed this until I saw some mention of it in other posts.

Hey just because you got this nice coin collection doesn't mean you're off the hook from detecting w/ us again.   

 Ok Folks, I have started listing stuff on ebay and Im adding a link in the ebay section of T-Net
If anyone bids and wins from here please let me know thanks

WOW and double WOW!! Great stuff. Too bad you can't save it for YOUR grandkids. It would really be worth something by then.

WOW and double WOW!! Great stuff. Too bad you can't save it for YOUR grandkids. It would really be worth something by then.

I will be saving some of it

I knew it was going to be good BC....but not this good......You can PM me for my address..And Tinpan too!!UN-FREAKIN' BELIEVABLE!!!!!!!!!!

That post was definitely a 'dream come true' for all of us...Congratulations on an Incredible find...your Grandfather is a lucky man to have you guys handling his treasure...

HH, Hank

Hey BC, sure am glad you got in and out of the basement without them pesky trolls getting you.

You have found the mother load of coins. Grandpa's got nothing to worry about, with you two around.

Okay I added a link to my items for sale in the ebay section, thanks have at it

Dude,That is the mother lode of mother loads!!! Great stuff.

any suggestion on how to clean up 17 rolls of steel cents?

soak them in WD 40 or pb blaster or naval jelly 

any suggestion on how to clean up 17 rolls of steel cents?

DON'T!!!. If you plan to sell them, don't clean them. Those damm things get oxidized easy though It's annoying for sure, but if you clean them, they're worthless. If you can't sell them, maybe then you can clean them and sell them as cleaned. They won't fetch nearly as much, but I'm sure you could get rid of them.

Do your part people on Ebay to help out grandpa, I did, I am wandwco and I bought the 1886 Morgan, Please see that Grandpa gets the money from my purchase/s.
Thanks
Dave

Found more stuff in the basement tonight!!
Not going to post photos tonight except for one. the 1893 morgan. These are alot of foreign coins and whitman books.

   Yeah Sure, Leave us Hanging!  Is there an S on the Back, or not?    ;)    I see you're down to 4 Items, did all the others sell?  More Stuff! OMG!


                                                          Joe       

No "S" but there is another high releif peace and a few cc morgans. I am trying to get caught up on all my shipping and then I will list more stuff. Alot of the stuff in these ;ast boxes are foriegn coins and 1970s, Then theres a bunch of books. Man these whitman folders make silver change all kinds of neat  colors.

     Good thing he didn't put this all in the addict. It would have came down on all of you.  Hmmmm   You know what?     Addict?  Just a thought.    HH

[NOT!!!!]

So this is what you call a cache. Frankly I would rather have a good stick of gum. NOT!!!!

Burdie without a cache.

  Hamina, hamina, hamina..... 
Dude, I need a shovel to get my jaw off the floor!!!!!
What an awesome, eye-popping, mind-blowing, once-in-two-lifetimes cache!!!!
Welcome to the silver and gold club!!
Congrats,
Bob
PS... and treat Grandpa like a king for his generosity!

BC this is awesome!

And you are certainly doing right by Leigh's Grandpa.

I get irate when family members (the very ones who are supposed to PROTECT and HELP relatives) take advantage like that.

You RULE!
 

and a few cc morgans.

Let me know when you get the CC's sorted out. My dad loves these and will probably buy them all...

Great deal on doing the right think Battlecat.  I salute you !!

Postalrevnant

Battle, how did Grandpa make out on ebay??  Hopefully now you have some time to MD before it freezes here in PA. BTW, class act looking out for him!!

See what I get for not being on the forum for awhile?

Wow!! This is truly the best story I've ever read on here! I hope that the EBAY sales went well and you were able to raise some good bucks for Grandpa. He sounds like a very sweet man and was done so wrong by the other family members.

Bless you both for putting some much effort into helping him. I have to go lay down now...I just read the whole post and my head, eyes and heart are killing me!! 

Thanks for posting this wonderful story and may you both have many blessings!!

Happy Hunting,
Moon

Good God, that is a nice cache of currency. The bills alone if sold on Ebay would command a nice price. The $1 silver certificates even in circulated condition as shown on the photos will fetch at the very least $3-4 a piece. Those $5 red/blue seals will also sell well. That 100 something in face value is more like several hundred dollars. Unless you need the money, I'd keep what grandpa is willing to part with. On the other side, open up a paypal account for grandpa's funds to start rolling in if he wants to cash out on his treasures.

When you go to sell them don't put them all up at once or you will flood the market and the price will be driven down.  With that much silver you could almost sink the silver market!  My dad had a small cache in his later years and one summer he gave it all to the grandkids a little at a time and they spent it on pop, candy and bubble gum!  I didn't know about it until a couple of years later.  It was worth only a couple hundred dollars at the time but today it would be worth a couple thousand. It was small enough that I would keep it instead of selling it. 
 There was an oldman living in the City limits that was running an illegal junk yard when I worked code enforcement.  He had about an acre of old cars, appliances and just junk.  Almost in every piece of junk he had coffe cans full of coins. He died and we started to clean out the lot and started finding the cache of coins.  So, I stopped the clean up and got in touch with his only living relative, a daugter.  She and her husband came over and went through the mess and took a pickup truck load of 5 lb. coffee cans full of coins, some old and some new.  The ones I saw opened were in no rhyme or reason, just tossed in the cans by the handsful, all loose change and bills rolled up with rubber bands.  The daughter never would say how much she recovered or what all she found but she told me they would never have to work again.  Last I heard IRS was looking for them and they had moved with no forwarding address.  I'm still not sure the daughter got it all as she didn't ever go back when the lot was cleaned up to check for anything that might have been buried.  The City finally foreclosed on the property for unpaid liens and now it sits in the middle of a large flood control lake.  I wish I'd known then what I know now, but you know what they say about hindsight. 
   At any rate, your granfather's cache is one of the biggest I have ever seen and I am humbled by it.  It isn't the find of the year by any means, it is the find of a lifetime!  Monty

WOW!!!!   

Just goin' though the 'Best of' and saw this 
Good on ya for doin the honourable thing mate, family is the most important thing.
This is the cache of a lifetime thanks very much for sharing.
 

WOW  thats is to much for words   and great story.

I can't even imagine how you must feel. UNBELIEVABLE. I am excited just LOOKIN'!
~Nash~

That is one special grandpa, and i am glad to see that you are not taking advantage of him, i wish my gradfather had saved like yours did. he just turned 93. the stories he has are enough for me congrats on the cashe

Looking at those pictures was better than SEX!!!

HOLY S#@T !!!!!   Now that is a find !!!!!
I am drooooooooling !!!

your honor at treating the gramps rightly will and has been rewarded !! --- some folks  tend to be greedy sucks --stealing and looting from old folks --- its a shame really that folks are like that --- your kindness has been justly rewarded --  it warms my heart to see "good" things happening for the old guy who must have spent much time and effort to get such a collection "together" for a change rather than ---"gee I found a truck load of silver coins while CRHing at the local bank today" ---(often those "massive CRH silver strikes happen because  someone was looting and cashing in gramps money for "paper money" or "gramps" passes away and folks just "cash in" his collection with not any regard to its "real value" in the "mad dash for cash" that happens when folks die and people "rummage" thru their former belongings --- Ivan

ok i got to go change my shirt ! drooled all down myself and and now i got tears in my eyes    greatest finds for sure  congrats to you and grandpaw  ;)

Hey Battlecat....check those merc closely for 1916D...ya never know..anymore gold coins Love the pics and the story !!!  This is what we all dream of !@!!!!@#@#!@#!


HH to all

Battlecat:  What a cache! Thank you Grandpa!  And kudos to you and Leigh Ann for looking out for your Grandpa's interests.  It is nice to know there are still good, honest people around. 

Keep posting.

My grandpa had a stash like that.  The widow took em all and sold em before he passed.  I got away with his MD treasure chest which held a few large cents and some smaller silver dug coins.  If she only knew that the chest was more valuable to him than the rest of it.  The other stuff was just money to him.  The chest was his keepers.  Dumb witch.

you need to do the 'ol boy SOLID
get the more vaued ones graded and slabed(sent away pcgs)
then sell them and give him all the dough
then you 3 sit around and make a pizza 

That...is a great plan!  The pizza will be worth a million times the value you get from the coin!

HOLEY MOLEY.. SOMEONE PASS THE SALTS... psst. am up for adoption too and am potty trainned as well... 

You dont have to search any more ive already cried enough write u a check right now for $10,000 what ya say

Ok Folks, I have started listing stuff on ebay and Im adding a link in the ebay section of T-Net
If anyone bids and wins from here please let me know thanks

neone know his ebay name?

sweeeeeeeeeeet!!!!

Man you guys lucked out, really cool, I cant believe he didn't remember having all that down their, is it possible that someone else put it there?  Anyway thanks for the pics and updates....

breath must remember to breath -- lordy yer killing me what a stash --

what a great story and great handfull of coins!!!!  Best wishes to Grandpa!!

What a find of a lifetime Love to hear all of that silver jingle

let us know what's in the cache.. Please very fun and nice....

Amazing find right in Grandpa's cellar, congrats!!  And a big  for having the integrity to do the right thing with it.  Just think, you've got the rest of the cellar to look through too!!  I bet there's lots more treasure to find!!

BUMMMMMMMMP!!!!!................................................. .........SPEACHLESSSSSSSSSS!

wow. amazing cache!   

I would have taken a whole week of vacation just to sit home and stare at that stuff!

That sure is one heck of a treasure but the real treasure is that Grandfather. Just by the way he collected, he seems to be a very intelligent fellow. He is the real treasure and you should try to spend as much time with him as possible. Just imagine the stories he could tell.

I'd sure like to know what cat ended up with getting for grandpa, on this cache. He seems to have disappeared.

Yeah I followed this post as well, I even bought a few wheats from the collection.  He hasn't posted since Aug of 2007, so not sure if we will ever get an update.

Wow!! Nice Granpa!!
Have fun searching all those finds!
Where are the milk containers?
HH
John

wow amazing

BC..the only words that come to my mind is .."Holy Crap"   Think Grandpa needs a hug.

WOW!!!!! I am totally speechless. The whole lot is amazing, but I am partial to those red seals 5's and 10's. 

God that would fill up my coin collection in no time.

what a haul . you hit the big one

nice haul   you hit the big one

I have no idea what to say. CONGRATS

 

What a great post.
Thanks bloke!

There are no words.

Possibly utterly amazing?

LD

WOW MORE PICS MORE PICS

I think this is the most amazing post that has ever been on treasurenet !!!
My wife is sitting here drooling and scratching at the monitor trying to get
some of these awesome coins on this post...

I just showed this post to my father in law
and he said that is absolutely awesome !!!

Whatever happened to this?

holy molly !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What a great stash Grandpa had. Kudos for helping him out. 

When they started pulling the silver coins out of circulation, to be replaced by clad, my dad started saving (hoarding) the silver.  He eventually collected together about $225 of it, and I had saved up $75 of it.  We went on a vacation, so we put all our silver together in an old metal suitcase, and we buried it in the back yard next to the old power pole there, for safekeeping. 

We came back, and later I mentioned to dad that we had buried our silver coins.   He had forgotten them, so I showed him where we had buried them, and we dug them up.  He later sold our collections to his brother at face value, who owned a coin shop at that time, in another part of the state.  Dad was being a nice guy.

But years later, I spoke to dad of those coins we had collected and buried.  But like before, he had forgotten that we had buried them when we went on vacation together.  He did not remember that at all, years later. 

With a lot of people, they will forget that they buried a cache of money.  That's why so many caches are still buried, waiting for an enterprising MD'er to come along and find it!

Keep on keepin' on!  HH, from Dave

Been a long time since Ive been on here. Grandpa did very well with he auctions, He kept the two gold pieces and some of the other coins but since its been so long I cant remember what he ended up getting.I think he gave us 10% and we were thrilled. I Dont have a detector right now as mine both broke but im looking to get an Ace 250 before the spring. Thanks for all the great compliments

Been a long time since Ive been on here. Grandpa did very well with he auctions, He kept the two gold pieces and some of the other coins but since its been so long I cant remember what he ended up getting.I think he gave us 10% and we were thrilled. I Dont have a detector right now as mine both broke but im looking to get an Ace 250 before the spring. Thanks for all the great compliments

What was your 10% in dollars?

Honestly I cant remember, this was found back in 2006....

I'd sure like to get a roll of those Mercs if you're willing.

I would sure like to sell them if I had them still 

Finally figured out how old this thread is...and long. Sorry, but hope sprung eternal.

abs unbelievable...........sure ur grandaddy wasnt a ole'school bank robber?! jk.....

my god that load in todays market you could go on plenty of vacations!

This thread is awesome.

Why is this relevant? Congrats on the windfall, but this could be replayed a 100,000,000 times over with countless families. Just saying......

  About the old milk cans, Grandpa seemed real upset about them not being where they should have been. He believes they were stolen by the same family members that have takin most of his money. He had quite a bit of lave savings for himself but it was stolen by the people he loved. Its sad because now he has hardly anything left in his savings.

That's really nice of your grandpa. Awesome collection. On the other side of the coin, it's extremely upsetting to hear how some of his personal savings was stolen. You should investigate this and if you find who is responsible for this action, make sure they don't forget it.

Why is this relevant? Congrats on the windfall, but this could be replayed a 100,000,000 times over with countless families. Just saying......

Really?    So you've heard of a 100 million caches like this one?

What a party!! So much fun to find all of that!

All the best,

Lanny

awesome gold coin 

Why is this relevant? Congrats on the windfall, but this could be replayed a 100,000,000 times over with countless families. Just saying......

Please, by all means, feel free to share your family version.....................many of us would likely find it interesting as well.............. 

Diggem'