A real nice find!! Many vendors here go to garage sales hoping to get lucky, and sometimes do, but the fellows in the story weren't g saling but got lucky all the same; they were trying to uproot and remove an unwanted tree!
posted on April 28, 2005 12:40:15 AM new
They showed some of the Money on TV and it really looked impressive. I have never seen money that old. In the news broadcast they said that some of the bills might be worth $50,000 each so I think their take is quite a bit. It is all theirs and I hope they enjoy their new found wealth.
posted on April 28, 2005 03:47:21 AM new
cta-with your luck,you'll probably find a dead body LOL!
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posted on April 28, 2005 06:44:37 PM new
LOL - just your ordinary average guys -
Simple luck helped Tim Crebase and two friends find a stash of cash buried in his yard. Splitting up the money without damaging their friendship may take more skill.
It was a rainy day that prevented Crebase and friends Barry Billcliff and Matt Ingham go to their roofing job, so they began digging around his Methuen yard to dig up a shrub whose roots were creeping into a nearby set of stairs.
About a foot down, Crebase said, he hit some soft wood. More digging cracked open a can and he saw the cash.
After grabbing it, Crebase said he ran screaming to show Billcliff and Ingham, and they helped him uncover about eight remaining cans. The total stash was about 1,800 bills dating between 1899 and 1929 and piles of gold and silver certificates. Exactly who buried it at the home in Methuen, about 30 miles north of Boston - and why - is unknown.
But at least Crebase and Billcliff disagree about who controls the treasure, estimated to be worth as much as $75,000.
Crebase, 24, says he's the one who made the find and has the final say about the money, though he'll do what's best for everyone.
"I'm the one who found it," Crebase said. "Without my decision, nothing's going to happen."
But Billcliff, 27, said that's not true.
"If one penny is spent, we all have to agree on its use," he told The Associated Press in a separate interview on Wednesday. "The truth was, I handed him the shovel, I told him where to start digging."
Despite the dispute over who controls the money, the friends appear to agree on what they should do with at part of it: putting some of it into Ingham's rock band, called Till We Die. Both say the band, which Crebase described as "aggressive rock," can make it big with some help.
"Once they get big, they're going to take care of me," Crebase said.
A message left at a listing for Ingham in New Hampshire was not immediately returned.
The day of the find, the men brought the money to Village Coin Shop in nearby Plaistow, N.H., where owner Domenic Mangano closed down early after he saw the quality of the notes.
"I thought I was in a dream looking at this stuff," said Mangano, who estimated the value of the find at between $50,000 to $75,000.
Much of the worth comes from diverse collection of obsolete national notes. Mangano said that in the early 20th century, banks were allowed to print currency with their own names on it. Once the federal government ended the practice, those notes became collector's items.
Crebase said he's planning to keep plenty of the proceeds for himself, adding he'll buy a car, clothes and save some of it. He said he plans to give some to Billcliff and the home's owner, Kevin Kozak, though he said he doesn't know how much yet. Billcliff said the money will be divided on a more collaborative, "as needed" basis.
Besides splitting up the cash, the find has come with other difficulties, including calls from people threatening to dig up the property, as well as strangers wandering through the yard, looking for more, Crebase said.
But in the weeks since the find, the yard was scanned with equipment that detects objects and nothing was found.
Crebase said he wanted to be sure his new wealth doesn't cause new rifts.
"I'd rather burn the money than cause problems between me and my friends," Crebase said.
posted on April 28, 2005 06:47:58 PM new
I think it's going to get nasty before it's all over with.
And they won't be friends anymore.
Yep - here it starts.....
Police Question Story Of Found MoneyMan Comes Forward To Say Money Is His
April 28, 2005
METHUEN, Mass. -- It's a story that made national headlines, but now police are investigating the story of friends who said they dug up a crate of money dating back to the 1800s.
Men Say They're Telling The Truth
Kevin Kozak and Tim Crebase said that they were digging up a tree in their back yard in Methuen recently when they discovered a wooden box filled with about 1,800 bills dating from 1899 to 1929 worth more than $100,000. The men said they took the money to a New Hampshire antique dealer to confirm that the money wasn't counterfeit.
The men told their story several times to newspapers and on television, but a local newspaper is now pointing out discrepancies in the story. One of the men who was at the house when the money was found was convicted of counterfeiting in 1999.
Police also said that the men might have broken the law by not reporting the find.
"We're looking into the reason why the find wasn't reported to us within two days," Capt. Christopher McCarthy said. "That's a violation of the law itself."
Crebase said that they didn't know they had to report finding the money.
"I understand if you find a suitcase on the side of the road, but this is an old crate we dug up in his yard," Crebase said.
The men said that their story might have changed because they were excited by the find. They also said another man has come forward claiming the money as his own.
"He wanted me to pay him off or he was going to turn it in and have the police take it away, and I was, like, 'Go ahead,'" Crebase said.
The men said they plan to split up the money and will fight any attempts to take it from them."
posted on April 29, 2005 05:09:28 AM new
Now it seems that these guys stole the money from a jobsite!!!!! They've been arrested! $ was found in rafters in house they were working on.
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