When I was still a kid, I remember a story that went through the local paper for over a year.
Seems an old man had recently died and left his estate to several heirs.
It was known that he hadn't trusted banks and many thought he had buried his money on his property somewhere. At that point it was just a rumor and no one really knew anything for sure.
Well the heirs decided to auction the farm and on the last day before the auction, one of them came by with a metal detector and within minutes found a Bell jar with gold coins in it. Within hours all the heirs were there fighting over the coins, calling the police, etc.
The auction was called off and a large high fence was put up and for literally several decades the farm just sat there. All the heirs had each other under court order that prevented them being on the farm unless they were all there.
I have driven by the farm maybe 3 times in the past 25 years and the last time it was still there, the house has fallen in on itself, large trees are everywhere now, and its easy to imagine that no humans have set foot on that property in all this time.
Anyway it was a funny topic of conversation for several years.
I remember my grandmother and how she was always careful to not let people know where she kept her silver coins. I distinctly remember her slapping my aunt when she held me (at age 6) by the arms and demanded to know where the coins were.
In retrospect it is kind of funny that out of all the people in the world, she trusted a 6 year old kid with the location of her coin collection, but not any of her children, including my own mother.
Ive heard stories most of my life about banks and how they cheated people around here during the 1930s. That way of thinking is very heavily ingrained in the mindset of almost everyone here over the age of 35.
I remember when I was 18 I opened a bank account and my Dad cried for hours about it and tried to get me to close the account for years.
Maybe it is that is the kind of upbringing in me, but I really have a fear of putting my silver coins in a safe deposit box.
With that said, and in consideration of some recent posts by Golden Silver, I'm wondering about how and where to keep my coins.
How would you keep your coins safe, from thieves, and from government thieves?
What I mean is, they already tactfully threatened Golden Silver with confiscation of his silver coins, and truthfully if he still has them in his house, he is a complete moron.
Seems an old man had recently died and left his estate to several heirs.
It was known that he hadn't trusted banks and many thought he had buried his money on his property somewhere. At that point it was just a rumor and no one really knew anything for sure.
Well the heirs decided to auction the farm and on the last day before the auction, one of them came by with a metal detector and within minutes found a Bell jar with gold coins in it. Within hours all the heirs were there fighting over the coins, calling the police, etc.
The auction was called off and a large high fence was put up and for literally several decades the farm just sat there. All the heirs had each other under court order that prevented them being on the farm unless they were all there.
I have driven by the farm maybe 3 times in the past 25 years and the last time it was still there, the house has fallen in on itself, large trees are everywhere now, and its easy to imagine that no humans have set foot on that property in all this time.
Anyway it was a funny topic of conversation for several years.
I remember my grandmother and how she was always careful to not let people know where she kept her silver coins. I distinctly remember her slapping my aunt when she held me (at age 6) by the arms and demanded to know where the coins were.
In retrospect it is kind of funny that out of all the people in the world, she trusted a 6 year old kid with the location of her coin collection, but not any of her children, including my own mother.
Ive heard stories most of my life about banks and how they cheated people around here during the 1930s. That way of thinking is very heavily ingrained in the mindset of almost everyone here over the age of 35.
I remember when I was 18 I opened a bank account and my Dad cried for hours about it and tried to get me to close the account for years.
Maybe it is that is the kind of upbringing in me, but I really have a fear of putting my silver coins in a safe deposit box.
With that said, and in consideration of some recent posts by Golden Silver, I'm wondering about how and where to keep my coins.
How would you keep your coins safe, from thieves, and from government thieves?
What I mean is, they already tactfully threatened Golden Silver with confiscation of his silver coins, and truthfully if he still has them in his house, he is a complete moron.
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