My son recently bought an older home, when he tore out a sofit to do repairs a bag of silver coins landed on his head. Enought money in silver to pay for new windows for the house...
I had a book on “Treasure Hunting”.
The writer was telling about all the old stories and his hunts to find them - with no success (but good stories anyway!)
He told of one guy that used to accompany him but the guy got tired of the poor results, and started “Treasure Hunting” in old abandoned houses on some acreage on the outskirts of suburbia. The ones too run down and old to live in, but also the ones not quite ready to turn into a subdivision.
One day he showed up at the local coffee shop /gathering place and motioned the writer to come over to his car. He opened up the trunk, and then opened up two old suitcases - full of cash. Then drove off into the sunset never to be seen again.
Obviously not sure if it is true - but a fun story, and very well could be.
By grandfather in-law lived (and died) at that type of place. My wife said they would find cash stashed all over the house when they would visit, clean, etc. When my MIL sold the place she sold it lock-stock-and-barrel to the developer that ran an auction. Heck, just all of the old tools and crap he had in the barn would have been worth a lot. But it was “too much of a bother to go through all that stuff, a lot easier to just sell it all”.
We were tearing out the walls when two packets of $100 bills from back in the 1950’s fell out of the wall.
I went to a coin dealer to see if they had any value above face, and no they didn't.
Your son knows that junk silver (something real) is always worth more than paper.
Article 1 section 2 of the US Constitution: “Congress shall make nothing other than gold and silver legal tender in payment of debt.”
What do we have now? Greenies.