SPENDING $3,000 on a locker without knowing what was inside was worth it for a YouTuber who found a coin collection worth thousands.
Dan runs the YouTube channel What’s Inside where he opens things that are locked, like safes and storage units.
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In a recent videohe explained that he spent $3,000 on a closet after only seeing it in photos.
Dan admitted that most of the closet appeared to be full of junk, but he was convinced there was a coin collection inside.
Luckily, he was right and found tons of boxes full of coins and coin collecting supplies.
“My heart is beating so fast,” Dan said when he first saw the collection in the unit.
He admitted he doesn’t know much about coins and asked viewers to help him identify some of them.
Some of the highlights included Bicentennial quarters and half dollars from different years.
Bicentennial quarters were reached in 1976 to celebrate America’s 200th birthday.
A single quarter sold for $6,463 at a price auction in 2017.
The half dollars he found included several from 1943, known as Walking Liberty coins.
The 1943 Walking Liberty is the highest mintage of any half dollar in the series.
They are often found in excellent condition, without problems, according to the Professional coin grading services.
A single 1943 half dollar sold at auction for $120,000 in 2021. Luckily for Dan, he had several.
Dan also found several Kennedy half dollars, including some from 1979.
The auction record for a 1979 Kennedy is more than $4,000.
In the comments, viewers offered Dan some tips about the coins.
“As a coin collector. I can easily see a $20,000-$30,000 collection just from this video,” one person wrote.
“If you take the time to find the right coin experts, you will have a home run in a big way. Congratulations on a wonderful discovery.”
Another person added: “All I can say, being a coin collector myself, is silver, silver, silver…nice find and good eye.”
Most coins used to be minted with silver and could be sold for their silver content alone.
Other viewers asked him to put away the coin purses and not remove the coins from their protective wrappers and envelopes.
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TREASURE HUNT
One homeowner had the same coin luck as Dan when he found a collection hiding in his new home.
The buyer posted on Reddit that he found tons of coins hidden in the garage, including some dating back to 1853.
“We bought a cottage from an elderly woman whose husband had just passed away and the garage was full [of] tools and objects,” they said.
One coin was a 1926 Liberty Silver Dollar, which sold at auction for $32,000.
And that wasn’t even the group’s most valuable currency.
There was also an 1884 Morgan Dollar that sold for more than $45,000.
Two children found a penny worth more than $7,000 in a coin machine.
Plus, see how to spot a $1 silver coin that could be worth up to $27,000 thanks to its star design.
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