Gold coins found in a cup under the kitchen floor? Does seem to be happening a lot lately.
Interesting.
Was posted prior but your source gave information the previous did not…such as everything you posted, except for where it was found.
My poor grandchildren. All they are going to find is hubby’s and my initials on the 2x4 behind the sheetrock in the foyer.
Why doesn’t stuff like this ever happen to me?
I am going to rip up the floor and find what my downstairs neighbor has.
The last line? “It’s heartbreaking that these belong to the homeowners to sell as they wish”.
What a socialist putz.
After my father passed early last year, we came across 54 Gold Eagles and Mapleleafs, all Proof sealed, hidden away in his basement workshop when we were cleaning out the house. In addition, we also found another almost $60K is old silver coins he had packaged and stashed. Odd thing was, none of us kids ever knew he collected coins.
Why would anybody in the UK report something like that to the government? If there was any chance that you would get anything less than fair market value, I’d just quietly sell them off - a coin at a time if necessary and abroad if necessary.
“therefore the property of the homeowners to dispose of as they wish. It’s heartbreaking,”
Wow, so the coins belong to the homeowners instead of the GVT, looks like a win to me.
Are you investing in physical gold for your retirement?
Circa 1745.
It's conceivable that the author of the "History Blog", naively or not, was less concerned about the politics of owning the collection, but the idea that the coins were all found together in a specific British location—which would be of interest to future historians, coin enthusiasts, and metallurgical research—rather than sold piecemeal around the world.
Just sayin.'