Check out the news article below. Someone got very lucky. Lou http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071027/ap_on_re_us/odd_hidden_coins;_ylt=AjMJElYgbtwss1b2Hm.Zt3oDW7oF
There was something on the news here locally a few months back about someting similar. A man buys a weather radio at a garage sale for three bucks. He doesnt open the box until he gets home. It was full of old coins and currency. I will see if I can find a link to that. They showed it on the local news. A table full of old currency and coins. The man took it back to the seller. They lady said she thought uh oh it doesn't work. He gave it all back to her and asked nothing in return. It turned out to be her fathers who had died many years before. He didnt take a thing for it. Wouldnt even let her buy him a new weather radio. That is an Ethics call if I have ever seen one!
If I was that lade, I would have bought him a weather radio anyway and just sent it to him. All you need is a license plate number if he really didn't budge on the matter of giving his name/address.
i had a uncle that collected coins that lived next door. i know he had a large safe full of coins upstairs and i herd that he hid cans of coins all over the house . after he died his wife spent the rest of her short remaining life prying boards from the basment celing looking for his hidden treasure. she worked her self to death and never found any that i ever heard of .
I read this in the L.A. Times as well. Almost makes one want to start demo'ing some of the walls in the house to see if anything is there.
My heat stopped beating for an instant when I read that article! That is so exciting I can hardly imagine that happening....
Just to show that sometimes the little guy does win, here is another one. But it doesnt have anyting to do with coins. I heard it on NPR (National Public Radio) while driving home yesterday. Had to pull the car over! A couple wants to celebrate their 60th anniversary in the same hotel room they spent their honeymoon in. The hotel is now posh. The pentouse is $1,600 a night. The hotel has a long standing, but rarely used repeat policy. If you bring in your original receipt, you can have a room for that price. They got their original 1947 receipt out of their wedding album and brought it in. A $1,600 suite for $9.58! Now thats a good one! http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15739297
