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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 2085849, member: 71234&quot;]Given the American propensity to litigation, the situation looks tricky. If it comes out that you found something worthwhile, all those verbal agreements like &#039;help yourself to what&#039;s left&#039; are liable to be forgotten in the greed of the moment. If there was a will and the terms of it left the house contents to the adopted children, they would be in a good position to dispute your possession of anything you found. In the case of intestacy, the children would still be in a strong position.</p><p><br /></p><p>I hate to feed the leeches but it may be an idea to get lawyered up first, explain all that has happened as you stated it above, and have copies of the will, if any, handy. It may be that all involved are saints who will say, &#039;Fair enough, good luck to you&#039;, you know the people involved best.</p><p><br /></p><p>Simply keeping quiet may work, and from what you said you have a clear moral title to whatever you found, but it would be&nbsp; a shame to find a real treasure only to spend twice its value on legal wrangles with only the lawyers profiting.</p><p><br /></p><p>No point doing all this till it is positively established that you have a big deal on your hands, but from the coins shown so far, more of a pack rat hoard than a collection, it does seem likely that among the heaps of junk and a few decent and desirable coins of reasonable value sheer chance has hoarded and preserved a real rarity for you.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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