Buried box of old currency found in Massachusetts

"Alan Williams" wrote in message
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Bruce Remick wrote:

"Padraic Brown" wrote in message
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On 26 Apr 2005 02:40:09 -0700, "stonej"
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http://www.boston.com/news/local/mas...6/pair_digs_up
_buried_hoard_in_methuen/


This is a very neat find.

Hm. Too bad they were smart enough to take the things to a coin shop.
One of our RCC locals could have had a really great "Found in
Circulation" thread had they just deposited the lot at the bank!

Also a shame that at least one of the finders wasn't a collector. That
lot would be a dream come true for any bank note collector!

Padraic.

I noticed this amazing find made the TV news, too. I saw film and
interviews on
our local news tonight but not on any of the network news shows. (All three
networks did manage to carry the same footage of the escaped bisons in MD,
though) The three guys who found the currency stash said they were going
to
sell most of it and use the proceeds to support their rock band. What a
waste!

Bruce

CNN Headline is running it with speculation about bootleggers and bank
robbers. Those two are always more exciting speculations than misers
and squirrels. ;-)


Definitely! Any romanticized connections like that just add to the fascination.
The only thing that could spoil this story would be for some insurance company
to come out of the woodwork with documents to challenge the kids' legal
ownwership of the stash.

Bruce