[Man from Oz]

Interesting story...

This happened to my family.

20 yrs ago my wife worked as a teller at a branch bank in Lincoln, NE. One day this older gentleman comes in and cashes about $150 in old silver coins. My wife waited on the gentleman and told him his money was worth more than the face value..... He would hear nothing of it and requested his change in bills. When the branch supervisor arrived, my wife was told to call his residence to again tell him that there was more money in the silver and that the bank would be willing to give it back to him for the value on the coinage.

Again, he was not interested. As it turned out, my wife and her coworkers purchased the coins at face value. We still have it locked up in the safe.

We have often wondered why the old boy didn't want the larger amount.

MFO

[Fishing-guy]

I have a friend who once bought a collection of old medical textbooks. Hidden between the pages, she found bills worth around $2000. She then sold the books to some collector for another $2000. Quite a deal.

[hosepipe]

[ Stafford has found more than $3,000 in bills dating from 1928 to 1953 in the bottom of a high-backed chair she bought at a garage sale — for two bucks. ]

Damn I have gone all day without a bit of envy.. UNTIL NOW..
I'm a BAD MAN....

[Radix]

That must be an old chair.

Reminds me of what is probably the best commercial ever made.

Two kids in a Volkswagen pick up a chair on the sidewalk. They take it, and then they smell it, and decide to dump it. Point being that they could afford a new VW car but not furniture....

Da Da Da....

I absolutely loved it.....

Meanwhile bills from 1928 to 1953 are likely more valuable than they would at first appear......

[commonasdirt]

Watch....the person who sold it will turn up and threaten a lawsuit

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

"$3,000 in bills dating from 1928 to 1953"

Shudder to think what that money could have increased to at even simple compound interest over the last 77-52 years.

[MinuteGal]

I found my kismet
It made me bellow
Where did I get it?
My brain is jello

Leni

[Ciexyz]

Did she find a copy of the Declaration of Independence in there, too?

[zip]

ping

[freepatriot32]

She will have it all seized under asset forfeiture any day now.Obviously if it was stashed in a chair and not kept in a bank it has to have some connection with drugs.Unless this lady can prove otherwise its the local police forces money not hers anymore. /police state

[ArmedNReady]

About 6 years ago, I found a very old, large folio New Testament at a flea market. I was in a hurry so I bought it for $35 and put it on a shelf at home where it sat for a couple of years. One day I took a look at it closely. It was printed in 1600, belonged to Lord William Calvert, contained the handwritten records of births, marriages and deaths in the Calvert family until after the Civil War and had letters dated from the Revolutionary War tucked in the pages. I contacted members of the Calvert family through a genealogical group. But no one in the Calvert family was interested in buying it for the going price for this particular volume (the price if it did not have any signatures or historical references) even though they verified the handwritten signatures as being authentic. Several family members requested that I copy the family history for them. I wound up selling it to a collector in California for a big chunk of change.

[Hi Heels]

I bought a $3 purse at a thrift store and scored $120 once. Thought I'd won the lottery.