California Couple Finds $10M Buried Treasure in Back Yard

[stoned-trout]

I am still looking for the 20 grams of hash I hid

 

[Spider Crab]

In 2003-2005, i found $5, $50, $2, $50 & $10 lying on the ground in random places.

I haven't found anything before or since.

 

[redlaser]

Friend of mine had a girlfriend who was able to siphon funds out of her work without them knowing for a while and bragged about it to him apparently. They'd been off and on 20 years. Eventually he gets enough info and searches a property multiple times with a metal detector and finds a metal tin with 35k. Was interested to hear what his girlfriend had to say about that but we parted ways about that time due to his new hobby of stealing.

 

[Jbomber79]

Goonies..

 

[Stoner4Life]

I found $425 one day in NY @ our taxi stand, it was all big bills, it's not like a driver to be carrying cash like that, if we have $200 or $300 on us it's usually broken down into denominations of 20's & less.

but I put a note (excluding exact amount or breakdown) in our office in case a driver or passenger would try claim it, nobody did except a couple of jokers from the fleet. It went unclaimed and after a coupe of weeks I considered it mine.

 

[Treetops]

and I'm sure that it's finds like this one that keep you & others hunting.

Yes, it is...One time, I found a diamond ring right on top of the ground near a tree...I picked it up, it just sparkled in the sunlight...I knew it wasn't no kids ring....had it appraised at our jewelers...$ 375.00....was almost 100 years old she thought...

 

[z-ro]

Should have never went public, definitely weren't walking their dog on their own property, I bet we see a law suit out of this.

 

[Tudo]

government will take approx. 50% in taxes, whether they sell or not they will have to pay the money.

 

[FlowerFarmer]

So.. 50% of the United States official book value of $42.2222 per troy ounce= ~$21 per ounce.



Why the hell would anyone go public with this kind of info. The government will surely rob them if they don't end up robbed or dead first. Could have kept quiet.. liquidated them one by one privately until your death and still left your kids a golden fortune.


I'd sell off a few of the more valuable numismatics to live comfortably on. Pay the ridiculous tax... and put the rest back in the earth for safe keeping.... assuming the cat was out of the bag already.

 

[Stoner4Life]

it'd be pretty easy to determine who stashed them there. whoever owned that land just prior to 1894 as that's the last year coin found. it's not likely that a coin collector (numismatic) would treat/hide his collection like this, this was an old fashioned cash stash, mint coins because he got them from his bank that way regularly. so look for a land owner straddling that 1894/95 and you'll also probably find a death certificate in 1894/95 for that same owner as he took this secret to his grave.......

 

[sodalitas]

it'd be pretty easy to determine who stashed them there. whoever owned that land just prior to 1894 as that's the last year coin found. it's not likely that a coin collector (numismatic) would treat/hide his collection like this, this was an old fashioned cash stash, mint coins because he got them from his bank that way regularly. so look for a land owner straddling that 1894/95 and you'll also probably find a death certificate in 1894/95 for that same owner as he took this secret to his grave.......

+1,000+

 

[unregistered190]

government will take approx. 50% in taxes, whether they sell or not they will have to pay the money.

Yup, Just saw this on the news....the IRS wants their share already!

 

[Bud Hi]

http://www.24hgold.com/english/news...0&redirect=false&contributor=Charleston+Voice

Treasure hunting enthusiasts believe the $10m fortune found by a couple in northern California could be the same gold coins that Walter N. Dimmick was accused of embezzling from the San Francisco U.S. Mint in the early 1900's

Dimmick began working at the mint in 1898 and by 1901 was trusted with the keys to the vaults – until an audit revealed a $30,000 shortage in $20 Double Eagle coins, six bags in all.

 

[Stoner4Life]

http://www.24hgold.com/english/news...0&redirect=false&contributor=Charleston+Voice

Treasure hunting enthusiasts believe the $10m fortune found by a couple in northern California could be the same gold coins that Walter N. Dimmick was accused of embezzling from the San Francisco U.S. Mint in the early 1900's

Dimmick began working at the mint in 1898 and by 1901 was trusted with the keys to the vaults – until an audit revealed a $30,000 shortage in $20 Double Eagle coins, six bags in all.

in that case the govt's gonna want it all.......

 

[Slim Pickens]

I don't know about anyone else,but I wonder how hard it would be to get burglarized?Would ya have to run an ad on craigslist or something?Gotta be cheaper than payin the gubbermint half.

 

[redlaser]

Most of the coins went on sale 5/27 on amazon and another site ran by the people who did the appraising. Still waiting for the IRS hammer to fall on this couple.

 

[Gry]

What a neat story, I sure hope it works out well for them. I have to wonder though, having read about how the lives of lottery winners turns out. It turned out that in almost all the cases followed, the 'winners', ended up wishing they had never won the money.

 

[Classic Seeds]

they are going to pay taxes but whats left after that will make them very well off ,I would gladly give the IRS their share if this happened to me but all I ever find is a few coins at the beach and they are never old or amount to much ha ha good for them is all I can say aloha cls