I'm truly thinking of burying it all....

Yes, I have read of others wanting to bury it all, but I am 99.99% that I am. I have thought this out to the end. I have bought all the nesserary items to secure 99.99% total climate control...great location..

My wife is going to get a substantial property and life insurance settlement, so this is just my personal endeavor. I collected coins for most of my life. My wife never cared for them really. I can already feel her anguish in getting rid of them. She would do 1 of 2 things....!
1st, she would probably get a quote from a local dealer....I am sure they would lowball her, even though 50% of my collection is TPG'ed...and she would take it just to get rid of it....
#2 - She would donate it to a local museaum.....I have seen this done with a late friend of ours, with a substantcial collection of Civil War memorbilia....they got nothing more than a tax write off....nothing close to the actual value of it...I wont go into details on that...but it was redicious...
I am going to bury this hoard in my backyard....A few things that will be in there..
2 complete sets of silver proof quarters...100 coins..
every lincoln coin from 1930 - present in slabbed condition.. other coins..
I have over 260 coins in pcgs or ngc....
Also many, many more in sets, raw, probably 1000 raw in uncirulated condition....I have a pcgs 1950-D ms 66 , i have many others like that, but way too many to list...
Well, its going in the ground..I dont want to donate it to a YN becaue I want a veteran to have this....I do want someone to find it...but someone who is deserving.....hmmmmmmm...

 

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sounds like you're initiating a scavenger hunt. LOL!

 

As a Marine Iraq Vet I would have to say DON'T DO IT!!! lol
Don't you have some deserving little nephew to turn those over to? I can just see a hundred years from now someone bulldozing your backyard to make way for the latest and greatest mall and some construction worker making the find of his lifetime.

 

I'm sure that construction worker will be deserving of finding the treasure too.

BTW...whats your address?

 

I just re-checked, I have 14 NGC Boxes filled with crtified coins.., most are Lincolns, but I a bunch of 1800 coins in there....So do the math..

Some one did say get a GPS of the site, Yes Iwll.... I may write a book..Heck, why not? I want someone who truly COLLECTS coins..
I dont want a dealer or a person who will FLIP them for a profit.

I would hope who gets this willl hold them, and give them to their family...and then to their family and so on......

 

Still searching, I found 4 boxes in intercept sheid boxes...I remember these were filled with nothing but wheat cents...

well. i am trying to list as much i can...

 

By any chance were you the Virginia man that found the buried Volvo as part of that ad campaign a couple years ago?

 

Chances are pretty good that after a year in the ground the coins will be worth only their weight in rust anyways. Hope you know how to bury easily corroded metals properly. Short of an air-lock drum like they use for spent nuclear fuel, I can't think of anything that will hold up in the acidic wet soil of the Northeast for very long.
Guy~

 

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When I was 10 years old (1962) I put my life savings ($8 in silver certificates) into a clean metal coffee can and buried it in our backyard.

A month later I reconsidered my decision and tried to dig it up. Maybe I wanted some candy or a comic book. Life was pretty simple back then.

I dug and I dug. And I dug some more. I never found the can. But I learned a lesson.

3 Davis Lane, Stony Brook, New York. Backyard. Please note that the new owners of the property may not appreciate you digging up their backyard. Good luck!

 

Seems like a lot of effort for a whole lot of nothing.

Seems like a lot of effort for a whole lot of nothing, or is this a joke idea?

Why anyone in their right mind would do such a thing is a mystery to me.
If you are so intent on waisting them why not just throw them off a bridge. This whole idea about people burying things is just so self centered to begin with with statements like, "i'm going to do this or do that cause I'm so different that I'm not going to do what everyone else does". Come on either this is a joke post or you may need to at least re-think your original plan.
They could be sold to help a local food bank, homeless shelter, humane society. A seperate trust for someones education, a donation to the ANA or how about war vetrans needing assitance after tours of duty - my God man there are thousands of ideas more suitable than dumping them in the ground just because "your stuff is so different"!
Almost any idea in the world, even losing money on your coins is more admirable than putting them in the ground - you may need to swallow a ego pill or something and come down and join the rest of the human race!!!

 

Yes, it sure would be ashame if one of those pesky YNs got it. Better to let them rot in the ground because no one else should be able to possess such glorious treasures, especially not some little brat or some annoying charity. Bury them in the backyard, and maybe Nicholas Cage will make a movie about the amazing and wonderful hoard. Freemasons, take a back seat to this.

 

Well, maybe I was a little hasty in my thinking. I definetly would not want to destroy the coins . I think I could vaccum seal everything 2-3X. Then an Airtight Plastic bin, sealed 2-3 times with heavy duty plastic bags.

I don't know, maybe donating them to the ANA isn't a bad idea. What do they do with them? Do they have a museum?
I am not against YN's , I just didnt want to hand them over to one YN.

I look at it like a pirates treasure more than an ego thing.hya:
I dont think I could really do it though. Because I would want to look at it from time to time..and I would wonder if it is suffering from enviromental damage. and then when I pass, maybe it would never be found??:secret:

Well, how about maybe just one box of twenty? I read above about one guy who did bury a little loot, even gave the address. I think a metal detector could find it with no problem. LOL, I bet someone is knocking on their door this morning, lolol...

Well, for now all is safe and sound...

Anyone else ever have an urge to bury some or all of their collection?

 

For some reason not all coins dissintigrate in the ground. During a reconstruction of a major street in downtown Chicago the ground was dug out for a great depth for new pilons. That ground had not been disturbed since the 1920's. In the ground construction workers found numerous old bottles, cans and many coins. One worker had a really large bag of those coins and some were Gold. Even old wood was being trucked away for some unknown distination.
As to just leaving it in a will. A neighbor and friend HAD a massive collection of guns, ammo, reloading equipment, etc. Possibly worth a real lot of money. He passed away and his family did not want any of that STUFF. So they called in a gun shop and were offered $1,000 for everything and they took it. Try picturing several German Lugers with all matching part numbers like new and many, many others gone for that price.
Imagine how many other situations like this REALLY happen with coins.
Sort of makes one think of trying to take it all with you.
Of course the ancient Egyptians tried that and it didn't work.

 

If you really want to hide some well just a small fraction but you could do many things to prevent family from selling them, you could put it in your will that those coins cant be sold unless such and such happens (emergency...., and that they be a market values, you could also set up a custodianship of the coins or something and have them exhibited in some musuem, you could sell half while your still alive that way you could choose the buyer and enjoy the profits, many options out there much better than just hidding them in the ground

 

Other ways to get what you want

If you get them appraised now, it's less likely that your survivors will let them go for a lowball bid.

You could pick someone you consider deserving while you're still alive to judge, and put that person in your will.

You could set up a trust to hold them, with instructions to the trustee to sell them at the best price possible under conditions you specify. You could require that they be sold only to a collector with N years experience, or any other condition that makes sense. Then you could have the money go wherever you want to bestow it.

If you want to create a special event for someone in the distant future, why not make it so you'll be remembered? Put in a picture of yourself, a biography, some stuff you've written.

Wanting to bury things does seem to be a common impulse, judging from what I've seen on precious metal forums. It might be instinctive. Other animals certainly do it with things they value.

 

Are you implying About Good is an animal?:whistle:

 

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I've always kind of liked my idea. Will them to the local coin club as trustees. The coins are turned over to them with each coin in a sealed paper envelope with a number on the outside 1 - ???. Then the will instructs that at the annual show each year, each registered attendee, (or possibly just the YN's) get to draw a numbered ticket out of a drum and they get that envelope. There is no telling what you will get. Could be worth fifty cents, could be worth $1,500. It would take over 20 years to disburse my collection that way (Longer if it was restricted to YN's) I would be remembered, many of the coins would go to people who would appreciate them, and attendance at the local show would increase. (Makes for good publicity when a higher value coin turns up.)

 

I like this idea. Or you could sell the now and enjoy a trip to your dream location or something else.