Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaVere_Redfield
TIL of LaVere Redfield, an American multimillionaire who was discovered to be hoarding a massive collection of around 270k silver Morgan dollars and postage stamps in his basement during a robbery in 1952. Following his death in 1974, his heirs uncovered even more coins hidden, around 7.3 million.
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They caught him Redfield handed
IRL Scrooge McDuck
Meant to say worth around 7.3 million dollars at the end.
Sold for $7.3 million, not 7.3 million coins. There was a mere “407,000 silver dollar coins which weighed 12 tons”. Pocket change, really.
coins? Sounds to me like a dragon’s lair.