Gold Found in Old Vent

This is insane, makes you wanna trash your home to find stuff.

When my grandmother died I found a few $20s in a broken vent in her room, but I think it had to do with her Alzheimers.

http://www.inquisitr.com/410116/300k-in-gold-dust-found-by-hvac-installers/

 

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Why can't I find any coins in my old hhouse built around 1928, Nothing but rolled up old newspapers that are in real bad shape. Oh well you can always dream.

 

I'd give 'em a heck of a tip...:thumb:

 

grab a metal detector and search your yard!!!

 

That is nice for all those living in places pre 1930's. Most of Vegas is post 1995.

 

thats how i feel, i moved to south carolina thinking i will be able to find good stuff metal detecting......... but nobody wants you on their property

 

Try taking a buddy with a semi-professional camcorder setup with you and say you are filming a pilot you hope will air on the Travel channel. It is plausible and who knows, you might end up making your own show. Also, always (and I am sure you do) offer to split what you find.

 

That is an awesome idea actually and I'm sure lots of people would go for it.

 

What are the odds that the same company would find something like this twice?

 

haha i actually have a friend that is a video guy but he's back in florida along with everybody else i know

 

I'ts always worth a try. Sometimes doing stuff like that is like a social lubricant. :yes:

 

Lots of people will do all kinds of things to be on tv.

 

I have used a metal dectector on my grounds and all I've found was about $1.98 in modern coins and lots of junk, must of been a spot where they threw out all the junk because I find forks and spoons and once a old style watch not gold. lots of copper junk no real old coins. Maybe this spring I will try again.

 

There was that man in England that found a bunch of Anglo Saxon gold with his metal detector. It sounds like people in Europe are finding things all the time.

 

The vast majority of people in the past were much poorer than the average middle class person now. Ever hear of the depression? Most couldn't afford to stash or lose money. They were fighting over dimes. Nowadays, we worry about having a cell phone with a data package. People back then didn't know if there would be dinner on the table tomorrow night.
Sure, they made gold coins at the time but the average person never saw a real one, let alone owned one. There wasn't that much extra money to stash double eagles away. The women didn't work. $20-30 might have been a month's pay for a guy, who would have had plenty of bills to keep up with.
A large house in an old wealthy neighborhood might be interesting.

 

I have a friend doing demo on a number of affluent townhouses from the 1850s in the nicest neighborhood. A month ago, I told him to keep an eye out for the little Gold $1. and $2.5 coins which (I suppose) occasionally got lost. He already joked that coworkers wouldn't say boo, nor tell the homeowner, if something like that dropped from a crack.

 

That is interesting because the common law as I understand it is the finder of personal property, such as a coin, possesses title to that object above all others, excepting the true owner (heirs of the person who lost the coin).

 

Just wondering if anyone has ever found anything in basement crawl spaces, My moms house was built in the 1800's with a almost full cellar made of stones. but there is a space we call the crawl space under one room that may have been added on I do not know but I know there are neighbors houses the same way. I do know there is cat poo there but would that be THE SPOT TO LOOK!!!

 

We looked at in our radiator vents when we moved in and found about 55 cents. Oldest coin was a 1965 quarter.

 

Was it silver?