She should check those coins and bills, she may have more than she thinks.
Ah! That's where my money went...
Maybe, maybe not. Even if she remembered, I bet a diet coke that there would be clamoring and pressure on her to return the money, even though she bought the chair.
Am I wrong on that?
MAN, she must REALLY go to a lot of garage sales! How could you forget?!
I would have kept quiet if it was my find.
I'd bet many coins and bills that old have value as collectibles aside from their monetary value.
Whoever stuffed the money in that chair probably went through the Bank Holiday. There was lots of hoarding into the 40s.
Hmmmmm....maybe I ought to check that stereo console out a little closer.....;^)
We had a case here a few years ago where a bag of baby clothes was sold at a garage sale. The woman selling the items apparently did not know her husband had been hiding money in the bag. The police went to the media and said they were looking for the buyers and were thinking of pressing charges against them for not returning the money.
Yeah, that approach will work.
Likely the result of a stash during the banking crisis of the great depression. The true owner of the money, who put it there is long dead. Furthurmore, I'm willing to bet that the people she bought this from at the garage sale acquired the chair second or third-hand themselves and don't have any moral claim to the loot either.
When he was taking it apart to restore it, he found the center post stuffed with Confederate money!
$3,000? That's how much Ho Chi Kerry spends on a haircut.
those bills and the coins are both worth a lot more than the face value. The paper will be Silver Certificates and they are more than the newer which say Federal Reserve Note.
I would have kept my mouth shut and split it with my daughter.
Probably tucked away by some cheap bas**** who didn't want his wife to find it.
Then after they die, the relatives that come in to sort through the estate have no idea where to even begin looking -- that is, if they know where to look in the first place.
This happened to my wife and me, and it caused a bit of a problem because of how it happened. My wife got this really old furniture piece that played 78 rpms (and it used to have a working radio, but that stopped working) from a relative. So she started collecting 78s, but they are hard to find. The Lincoln Center Library Sale was a good place, but it was only once a year and they stopped selling them after a couple of years. (Apparently, they ran out.)
Anyway, my supervisor knew I had been collecting them (I had bought a box from a co-worker through the company bulletin-board), and he told me that (I think) an aunt who had passed away had a bunch of boxes. He sold them to me for something like forty dollars.
To make this long story not quite as long, my wife found an envelope with $400 in on of the sleeves. She wanted to keep it, and I was racked with guilt. She tried using an "Antiques Roadshow" metaphor, and I tried to impress upon her that I *know* who the person is that "lost" this money.
Things got worse for me a few days later when my boss asked me to keep an eye out for any envelopes. Some had turned up going through other thngs, and it had been his responsibility to go through all those records before he disposed of them. Now, to my wife that meant "so he didn't do what he was supposed to, so too bad"; to me, it meant "I trust you".
Anyway, my boss could tell something was up and I laid it all out for him. He offered to let her keep half. I don't know if his siblings (or was it his wife and her siblings?) were at the point of suspecting that money had to be there or what.
In the end, my wife's co-worker finally guilted her into returning the money . . . but only because she found a second envelope. And she told me flat out that she was keeping any more envelopes that she found.
I don't remember if she found any more (or if she would have told me if she had) or if she ever gave me the forty bucks for the 78s in the first place.
TS
Why did this twit make her discovery public? Sell the bills and coins on ebay! Bet they may be worth up to a million dollars, especially since they're from the 1920s-50s.
Cesarini