A very lucky find.

A short while back when I first became a member of CoinTalk, I had mentioned in my first post that my wife and I, 25 years ago, came across some hidden treasures in the basement of an old house we were cleaning out to put on the market. The owners, who had died within a month of each other at a ripe old age, were related to my wife. They had no children.
After a weekend of backbreaking work emptying the contents of the house, we filled up a 30 yard dumpster. The owners were heavy smokers and everything reeked. We finally headed down to the basement, steps were broken, two overhead lightbulbs was all the light we had. My wife discovered a paper grocery bag behind an old washing machine, which backed up to shelves holding jarred food. Thinking it was just garbage, she handed it to me and I was shocked to see that it contained coins. U.S. and foreign.
Mostly copper with some silver. Here's a sample of the discovery.

 

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Awesome finds. Were they already in slabs or did you do that after?

 

Wonder how much that 1877 would cost 25 years ago compared to now,intreasting story.

 

Impressive. What about the foreign coins?

 

About 3 years ago, not being at all familiar with grading terms, I would've thought that "Good Details" and "Fine Details" meant something totally different that they actually do. I have the same question as furrgyfrog, regarding whether you found them already slabbed.

 

Those are relatively recent NGC slabs. The OP probably had them graded in the past few years or so.

 

Shows how much I know about the TPG game. Besides the fact that is largely a racket ;P

 

Dang! That's an incredible find, are you going to sell some of the more valuable ones or keep them? If you're selling I'll take the Early copper....

 

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Nice find for sure.

 

The indian was slabbed 08/18/2020, The '53 large cent 1803 1/2 cent and 1809 1/2 cent were slabbed 08/27/2020. SO yes they were recent slabs

 

Potty, do you do this intentionally or do your fingers just trip over themselves on the keyboard?

It's spelled i-n-t-e-r-e-s-t-i-n-g !

 

Didn't realize that,the words just pop up without me typing them and I let my device do the dirty work.Guess I need to keep track more.

 

A quick CT search resulted in 47 different times that you've misspelled it.

Search Results for Query: intreasting | Coin Talk

 

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I am going to guess that he misspelled it the first time, somehow it got saved to his dictionary and now it auto corrects to the misspelling every time he types intre instead of inter to start the word....

 

I had them slabbed later on.

 

Interesting thing is my brain auto corrected and I didn't even notice when I read it.