Talk about luck

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Actually.. you thought of that excuse, not him.

Why is this conversation heading to extremes of ridiculousness?? Its like watching a debate between a person with a bit of common sense, and Mel Brooks on acid.

 

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Regardless, I'm asking for the bickering to end.

 

Could have been stolen. Could have been buried as someone's stash.

Hard to tell...

I would turn it into police....or create an ad: found buried treasure. Call to describe.

 

You should read the entire thread and you will find that an ad has been placed and the police know about the find.

 

Have they scoured the area more thoroughly since then BU?

Maybe they will stumble upon a huge ancient horde of indian gold, like that guy did in england when he found a bunch of dark ages gold metal detecting

Its a long shot but a awesome long shot hehe.

 

Buy a metal detector and serch that area.

 

Talk about luck ***UPDATE***

Just thought I would post an update to this.

It's been over a month now since my brother, and his buddy, found the rolls of silver Washingtons and there have been some developments since I posted this thread.

First, he did notify the police of the find and has held onto the rolls for the past month now. At the time, the police had no reports of any thefts of rolled change of this magnitude. However, after doing some digging they did find a very old report from 1967 of a theft of a cash box from the Student Council's bookstore at our old Alma Mater. They did catch those responsible; however, they never recovered the cash that was in the box at the time, and apparently the 8 rolls of Washingtons was just a small amount of what was the total amount kept in the box. But the S.C., received restitution as part of a conviction for petty theft of those responsible, the amount of $300. So they had been made whole at that time.

When the old report of the theft was discovered, the current President of the S.C. was contacted by my brother and this is what will happen:

By mutual agreement, my brother is going to sell the rolls, with my assistance, and a portion of the proceeds will cover the cost of a pig roast for the S.C. members, and their families, on July 4th, and the rest of the proceeds from the sale will be graciously donated to the S.C. to be used at their discretion.

Even though technically my brother could legally claim ownership of the rolls, he decided that the Student Council is in more need of those funds than he is and decided to not only do something awesome for them, but also do something generous for them by turning over the remaining amount from the sale.

Oh and the 51 Washington, that actually was the cause of the discovery, The S.C. President told my brother to keep it :thumb:

 

And now you know the "rest of the story". I miss Paul Harvey...

 

WTG! Your brother is a stand up guy!

 

Mmmm, pig roast. I always love a happy ending. :smile TC

 

You live in Flint? I live ten minutes south of there! :thumb:

Glad to here the story had a happy ending.

 

hmmmm 1967? It is doubtful that rolls of quarters in 67 would be all silver. In 67, as a young collector, I was grabbing silver from circulation and way more than half the quarters were not silver by that time. If these rolls are all silver, these were almost certainly NOT the ones from the theft in 1967. But it is a nice gesture. I'm sure he will enjoy the BBQ too!
Nice ending.

 

WOW. I've read this whole thread and I am very impressed with your brother's decision. In all honesty, I'm not sure that I would have made the same one if I were in his shoes. Kudos and props to your brother!

 

Everyone loves a happy ending. Even Slugo.

Way to go BU and Bro!

 

Read the bold, underlined :thumb:

My brother is the one roasting the pig in his smoker, too.

 

I think this is unrelated to that incident. Plastic bags weren't exactly common in the '60's.

 

I may have said plastic bag, when it was really that heavy white plastic. There were rolls of that stuff in the shop for making small greenhouses for the ag class to grow flowers and plants in.

 

Not sure what you mean by that, but the other poster was saying that silver was quickly being scooped up at that time. If those coins were stolen in 1967, there'd be a lot of 1965, 66, 67 clad coins in with the silver.

 

The latest date was a 64. I'm still trying to figure out why the Student Council, back then, had that kind of cash in the bookstore instead of keeping say $10 or $15 for change and the rest deposited in the bank.