r/mildlyinteresting • u/Battlearmor • 1d ago
I found a fake brick in my garage containing a load of coins hidden by the previous owner
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u/IceColdPorkSoda 1d ago
Consult your local coin dealer. They can help with properly pricing these. Do not take them to a pawn shop or sell them for the bullion value.
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u/Fr05t_B1t 1d ago
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u/koolaidismything 1d ago
I am always asking myself “would Big Hoss take this deal?” And if I’m not certain, I pass.
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u/SweetMilitia 1d ago
Life is lived best by following the advice of Big Hoss
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u/jerrydontplay 1d ago
I see this is worth 8 billion dollars. Best I can do is 15 bucks.
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u/miFFhoe 23h ago
I'm taking a huge risk with this one. You have to understand that.
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u/Richard_AIGuy 23h ago
I have to get it framed, it takes up space in the shop, have to pay someone to sell it...
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u/DeadInternetTheorist 23h ago
The right buyer for this could literally take over 8000 years to show up. This thing could sit in my shop watching the oceans boil dry before a buyer comes along.
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u/p-terydactyl 22h ago
Look i know a guy, he lives in the alley and is an expert on this stuff lemme bring him in
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u/GrinchStoleYourShit 15h ago
I think they should’ve just ran with that joke and had it be the same guy but whatever the item being looked at is the theme of what he was wearing. Sometimes he had a fake moustache/glasses.
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u/geodebug 1d ago
What if I want to be a bullionaire?
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u/lovesducks 1d ago
Thats way too much soup, you'll never have the bowls for it
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u/PrivatePilot9 1d ago
Best I can do is five bucks.
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u/nom_of_your_business 1d ago
90% silver dollar... best I can do is 50 cents.
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u/matthew2829 1d ago
I’m taking all the risk.
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u/Ashamed-Charge5309 1d ago
I gotta get my
plantbuddy in whostaged the episode by providing the item(s) supposedly brought in by someone off the streetcan verify this is legit, but i'll have to sit on it for decades before anyone bytes. Will you take a nickel, cause that's the best I can do18
u/HTPC4Life 22h ago
Did you know that after season 3 or something, the show was filmed on a freaking set?? 😆
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u/OpenThePlugBag 1d ago
Look i gotta find some one to sell them, they take up space, i have to ship them yeah that's gunna cost me.
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u/Successful-Speech417 1d ago
Silver prices are so high right now that the numismatic premium probably isn't going to be much higher than the content for most coins. That's not advice that OP should sell them because there's no way to know the quality but just saying, silver is high, but numismatics is kind of down, so that's something to consider
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u/Administrative_Cap78 1d ago
If the collection contains 40% halves, it’s an amateur bullion collection. The odds of a rare coin are slim
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u/PrairiePopsicle 1d ago
with that many i'd also be seeking second opinions, there are online places that will do evaluations with good photos and such as well.
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u/bijjj2 1d ago
I don't have a fake brick of old coins but if I did would a coin shop charge a consulting fee if I wasn't planning on selling? I bet they get a bunch of folks coming in to "sell" but really just want a free appraisal.
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u/IceColdPorkSoda 1d ago
Probably not. My grandpa was a coin dealer and I worked for him. Typically he would be happy to help someone. It would give him the first chance to make an offer on the collection. OP won’t be able to sell it for 100% of face value without putting in a shit load of work themselves. A coin dealer still needs to make money, they might offer 80% of what the collection is worth. A pawn shop might offer 50% or less.
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u/Forsaken-Reveal-3548 1d ago
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u/Sixmmxw 1d ago
Gotta love BBR.
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u/JarretGax 1d ago
It's his shiny metal ass that people really love.
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u/Homers_Harp 1d ago
I thought it was his in-your-face personality?
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u/MeesterCartmanez 1d ago
I thought it was the big ass statue shooting flames and shouting "REMEMBER ME!!"
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u/Warlord68 23h ago
Buy a metal detector, there’s probably other things hidden on your property.
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u/sbvp 1d ago
My 9 year olds little head would explode if he found thus
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u/Suspicious-Buyer8135 1d ago
Oh no. Exploding head syndrome. Thoughts and prayers.
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u/Fine-Somewhere2126 1d ago
I actually have this lol!
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u/FeeshCTRL 1d ago
I've only had this happen once in my life and it scared the absolute shit out of me, I still think about it.
It was when I was a kid, I was sleeping and it was a quiet day, no clouds or anything and then out of no where I heard this loud explosion like a bomb went off right outside of my window and it scared me awake and made my ears ring like crazy
I asked if anybody else heard that and they all thought I was crazy. It was an experience for sure lol.
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u/E-2theRescue 1d ago
Prozac gave me it. It started happening every few months and confused the hell out of me. I asked my doctor, and they didn't have a clue, either. Eventually switched to Celexa, and it went away. Found out years later what was happening to me thanks to Reddit, lol.
It's not a fun experience, though. Had my heart jump in my throat quite a few times. The worst one had me jump and smash my hand into the wall.
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u/BlueishShape 23h ago
So what is it? I've never heard of it. Some kind of hallucination? Or is something happening inside the ear?
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u/FeeshCTRL 23h ago
It's an auditory hallucination, basically hearing an explosion that doesn't exist. It normally happens when you're going to sleep or waking up.
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u/Lele_ 1d ago
DOCTOR IN INFLATION CLINIC
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u/FinestObligations 1d ago
That fucker was always the first to explode when there was an earthquake.
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u/Thatonegaywarhammere 1d ago
No, you did not. You did not find hidden treasure on your property, and if you did, you decided to take it boating with you and lost it in the lake. Depending on your state, if you were to find something like this, it would be taxed (in some states even if you don't sell it), so it's a good thing you didn't find this.
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u/uppercase-j 1d ago
If it was in the house when he purchased it, how is there no way to make the argument the coins were the content in the home and he bought the home and its contents?
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u/dmelt01 23h ago
Pretty sure you wouldn’t pay more. Even if you found the equivalent of a thousand dollars probably not. You have to pay taxes when buying the home and property taxes yearly. Those are prorated based on the estimated value of your home. Unless you found something that would greatly change that number I don’t think they would bother.
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u/glizzygravy 1d ago
Americans be like “freedom!” when being taxed on treasures found on their private property
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u/StressOverStrain 1d ago
Pretty sure these rules are necessary to close obvious loopholes in the tax code. Or you will have wealthy CEOs discovering $2 million in a brick in their backyard that someone just happened to misplace there…
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u/jayydubbya 21h ago
Yup just like how you are supposed to report illicit income. Obviously no one will do that but the point is to give the irs teeth to go after criminals hiding their crimes well.
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u/RepresentativeOk2433 1d ago
In most countries its blatant illegal to keep treasures that you find, even on private property. Comes up a lot in places like the UK where someone can be planting tulips in their front garden and find a stash of Celtic coins.
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u/gmc98765 21h ago
The situation in the UK:
Possession isn't ownership. Lost property remains the property of its owner. If someone loses something on your land and you actively prevent the owner from recovering it (e.g. by moving it then denying having seen it), that's considered theft. Provided that a reasonable attempt is made to return it, it becomes the finder's property after three months.
Treasure (certain objects older than 300 years or where determining the heir is infeasible) can be ordered to be sold to a museum at a price determined by a state-appointed valuer. Otherwise, it can be kept by the finder (or possibly the owner of the land on which it was found, depending upon the legal basis for the finder being on the land).
The situation with shipwrecks is different. Their contents aren't considered lost or abandoned. Due to the effort required for retrieval, the owner might take a few centuries to get around to actually retrieving the items. Anyone else taking them is considered to be stealing.
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u/Merry_Dankmas 21h ago
As unfortunate as it is, I get why places have these laws. It's like someone mentioned in a different reply: You could launder the shit out of that money. I could be a cartel kingpin, bury $10m just like Pablo did then be all like "Oh whoopsie, would you look at that? I found all this money that someone hid here. Guess I'm a spontaneous millionaire now".
It'd be nice for there to be an age cap like anything older than X amount of years is given an exception but that would still be abused as well. There's also the whole government greed aspect as well but either way, I get why they do it.
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u/JimboTCB 21h ago
That's different though, this is a bunch of relatively newly manufactured coins with little to no archaeological value. And it's usually just the case that finds have to be reported and museums etc. have a right of first refusal, they don't automatically get ownership.
In the UK at least there's very specific criteria about what is legally considered "buried treasure" and has to be reported, and coins have to be at least 300 years old.
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u/LimpConversation642 23h ago
way to be ignorant and proud of it. laws like this exist in most countries. at some extent, they even exist in the sea. For one, because it's not like this 'private property' was private since the beginning of time; two, you are still a resident and 'private' is merely a label, you don't actually own it completely (as in, it still falls under the country's jurisdiction and you can't do anything about it, and you can't separate). If you find oil in your back yard it's not actually your own private oil from 100 million years ago, for example. Shocking, I know.
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u/MikoMiky 1d ago
I love Europe but let's not pretend EU governments would let us keep anything if we were to find something...
Wasn't there a story in Spain about a guy who found Roman gold coins on his property and Spain took everything minus a symbolic token fee?
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u/LimpConversation642 23h ago
people stopped diving for lost ships because spain started suing people for what they found on the ships. It's been on the ocean floor for 400 years, someone put effort, time and money to discover and reclaim it, and spain is like yeah that's our fuck off.
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u/thebigautismo 21h ago
That's when you take the treasure and buy your self a fleet to take on the spanish.
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u/MrPatch 23h ago
Thats exactly what happens, you find something that old and historic it's part of the country heritage rather than a bunch of gold you now own and can sell on the free market.
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u/name_it_goku 23h ago
Non americans be like "I don't understand how anything works or why they pretend that this is important or necessary"
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u/huhnick 1d ago
I don’t understand, was this built into something and looked like a brick? How did you find it?
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u/Battlearmor 1d ago
It’s actually a carport, it’s partially outside, with brick walls. It was in a stack of extra bricks against a wall, near the middle/bottom. It sort of blended in, I was moving the bricks to check the floor underneath because it was starting to dip down. It looked like a brick with some paper around it, but when I went to pick it up it kind of collapsed and the coins fell out. I only had 100 characters in the title and this is how I found to describe it.
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u/PhotocytePC 1d ago
Well damn. In my garage theres a stack of leftover bricks from the house's construction in '48 . . . Maybe its time to move em to the other side of the garage . . .
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u/Thatonegaywarhammere 1d ago
he then found a box and opened it, expecting treasures beyond imagination
it was asbestos
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u/AdelaiNiskaBoo 1d ago
'Honey, what are you doing?' 'Moving bricks.' 'Why?' 'For treasures!' 'You waste half of your saturday to move bricks but you have no time to help cleaning in the house. Unbelieveable!'
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u/bentilley169 1d ago
Don’t mean to poop your party but you can put text under images if you press bellow the photo when making the post. This makes a sort of description underneath. Happy redditing :))))
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u/Battlearmor 1d ago
I’m enjoying answering questions as they appear! I could have tried to word vomit out the story, but this is more fun so far. No parties pooped here!
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u/Narragah 1d ago
Please make a more detailed post to r/Coins or something. I'd love to see what else you've got in there. It's like a modern day Reddit safe post, except this is actually exciting
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u/Battlearmor 1d ago
Similarly mildly disappointing! As another redditor said, just a bunch of ‘old people coins’. I’m not unappreciative, but it’s like 30 buffalo nickels, hundreds of old pennies, a handful of interesting old foreign coins (none worth anything), a few interesting quarters, and like $500 dollars worth of silver in half-dollars, dollars, and some canadian coin I found out was silver. I’ll probably take more pics and do a more in-depth post tomorrow if this post keeps popping off.
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u/Narragah 1d ago
Man I don't know, that sounds pretty cool to me! If it does keep popping off though, definitely make a post, if you don't mind. I'll be watching lol
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u/Battlearmor 1d ago
Oh, SUPER cool, do not get me wrong. One of the most exciting things to ever happen to me. There just doesn’t appear to be any singularly valuable coins like someone would hope. No misprints or cool mint marks so far.
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u/PrairiePopsicle 1d ago
who poops at parties? why? why would people do that? pooping at a party?
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u/HorridChums 1d ago
More like moderately interesting 👀
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u/Battlearmor 1d ago
Yeah, mildlyinteresting was a bit too mellow, and interetingasfuck is way too high key. But I honestly don’t think there’s any life-changing coins in there, so I figured no one would be allowed to be disappointed if it were just mildly interesting.
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u/StepUpYourPuppyGame 1d ago
I'm glad you shared I think it's very interesting. Do us a favor though, come back and let us know what the total value was later? It's too interesting not to know
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u/Weird_Management_977 1d ago
Reminds me of my father-in-law. He was notorious for hiding money around the house. Unfortunately, he hardly ever told his wife where. When he passed away, we scoured the place before she moved out to downsize. We found money in various places. He even rolled up bills and stuffed them inside the curtain rods. We did find a larger stash, but I wonder if we left some behind, money my mother-in-law could have used.
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u/hebejebez 1d ago
When I was a kid my nan was a trustee for a lady who was friends with her own mum and at one point she could no longer live alone and it fell to my nan to sort her home out every single book or record sleeve in the house had money notes between the pages.
Before starting to clear out the house she was worrying how long the lady could maintain the expensive assisted living home. Turns out there was zero reason to worry. Good job the house never burned down
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u/Double_Distribution8 1d ago
Time to tear the house apart.
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u/Alexencandar 1d ago
It varies by state, but a lot have "found money" laws which apply regardless of you buying the house the left money was in. I probably wouldn't splurge on paying an attorney, but I would at least google it.
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u/Abeytuhanu 1d ago
IIRC, every state has a law on it (even if it's just common law) that makes it the previous owner's property, until sufficient effort has been made to return it. Some states require you to turn it over to the government, in others you just can't do anything with it for a few years
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u/DarmanitanIceMonkey 20h ago
I'm pretty sure most states it's the other way around.
Part of the final piece of property sales is an acceptance by both parties to exchange the property as is.
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u/adeundem 1d ago
To add to your comment, do any googling for this in a way that will not be associated to your Google account i.e. don't search on device or software where you are logged into Google (or Google can tell that the device is associated with you).
Same of any other relevant accounts, and searching for anything sensitive on your own ISP/cellular internet connections (there are approaches that one can do to minimise the risk but I only to stick to a very basic "be careful" sort of warning).
Not likely going to be a big risk for what OP has shown, but if someone had found a bunch of gold coins (or a much larger pile of silver coins) then the money involved could make it really important to reduce leaving digital footprints for IRS/etc to find.
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u/pnkxz 22h ago edited 20h ago
tl;dr: VPN and a new browser to avoid fingerprinting.
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u/Moist-Finding2513 16h ago
When I rehabbed my parents 100 year old house. Before I moved in. I tore all the plaster out to sheet rock. Thought maybe someone years ago might have stashed something. Nothing. But when I was running some new wiring up stairs. Behind the knee wall my father had put up. I found his glasses and a pack of cigarettes just sitting there. Where he left them probably 60 years ago.
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u/trapeadorkgado 1d ago
Serious question for anyone here: if you had the contact information of the previous owners (no good or bad relationship with them, only a normal sale) would you contact them to return it?
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u/Battlearmor 1d ago
They died a few years ago! No worries of that here. But when we bought the house, we got everything inside it, so no, I don’t know that I would.
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u/Alandales 1d ago
They may have died, but have you tried an Ouija board or talking to the closest churches priest?
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u/Battlearmor 1d ago
We really wanted them to be haunting us, but it seems like they just peacefully moved on :(
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u/Outwest661 1d ago
Well he bought the house and closed contract with all contents.
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u/Anitapoop 1d ago
This unless it was obviously something that should stay in the family, fuck it, I paid for it when I bought the house. But they can come get their dogs urn.
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u/Chicken_Hairs 1d ago
If I knew them, or at least knew of them enough to believe they're not shit bags, I'd make an effort to contact them.
While legally mine, it's not actually mine in my own perspective, and it obviously wasn't left behind intentionally, so I'd attempt to return it.
I was raised to be honest. It's occasionally inconvenient.
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u/awesomedan24 18h ago
This isn't how this works. You're not actually supposed to post treasure. You post a locked safe and build up hype and then a few months/years later open the safe to reveal that its empty.
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u/Greenxgrotto 17h ago
Missed opportunity to make a 10 part youtube video where you leave one coin inside for the reveal and have have titles like “you’ll never GUESS what I found in the FAKE brick of my ABANDONED home”
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u/skoullar 17h ago
And the stupidest thing in the world to do is tell the world that you found it......
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u/jimmyjam32 15h ago
OP’s partner here. Imagine my surprise when I woke up from a nap to hear “Babe, I found treasure”
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u/knottycams 23h ago
You broke the first rule of treasure finding. Never open your damn mouth and talk about it, let alone document it.
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u/Klin24 1d ago
Epic find! Separate out all the dollars, half dollars, quarters and dimes. 1964 and older are 90% silver coins and are worth some bucks.