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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GoldFinger1969, post: 7014563, member: 73489&quot;]I think the days of scouring banks for hoards -- like the European Hoards -- are largely over.</p><p><br /></p><p>After WW II, there was so much chaos that banks -- and their depositors -- didn&#039;t know WHAT they owned.&nbsp; So you had full-time employees scouring banks for Saints and other valuable coins.&nbsp; It paid to do this up to the 1970&#039;s, as I understand it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Bank controls were lagging, too.&nbsp; You didn&#039;t have good financial reporting, especially for smaller banks and/or banks in 3rd World countries like Central and South America.</p><p><br /></p><p>For the most part, those hoards have been discovered.&nbsp; It&#039;s possible you have an aging child of someone who purchased directly or got from their parents some valuable coins and these might make their way into the population census, but here you are talking individual coins or just a handful.&nbsp; Not dozens or hundreds or bags of coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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