27/12/2025
Crazy find while cleaning out my grandparent’s house!
I will preface this post by saying I know how rampant the “my grandmother gave this to me” or “inherited from my grandfather – how much is it worth?” here her here on the coin and silver subreddits. So I know the level of skepticism that I have or many people do when they see posts like this 😂
For the past few months over the summer, I’ve been helping my grandmother to clean out her house to prepare to sell it. She and my grandfather moved into it 30 years ago when my middle brother was born. They were notorious collectors of anything they sound to be interesting or intriguing to them: chinoiserie, wine, American antiques, oriental rugs, Russian enamel, coins and silver, etc. my grandfather in particular was also very fond of hiding things around the house in random and hard to find spots - usually things value, but honestly anything he found interesting that he didn’t want anybody else to find (I can only imagine that this is a holdover from him living through World War II while in Europe)
My family and I have been working with a few auction houses to deal with a lot of more expensive and larger pieces.
This past week, we were cleaning out there, kitchen and tucked in the very bottom cabinet way behind a bunch of hardly touched glassware, we spotted one of those large purple velvet crown royal bags. My grandparents used to love putting things in value in those bags 😅
As I pick it up, I’m shocked. This thing is crazy heavy! I proceed to open it up and what do I find but two 100 ounce silver bars!!
They were individually wrapped in pieces of parchment paper. I haven’t had much of an opportunity to look into the Hallmarks or stamping on either of them, but the toning looks to be correct for silver, and they are not magnetic. These things are so heavy and I’ve never seen silver in this kind of quantity before! Anyway, this seems like a good place to share with fellow silver lovers, and people who like big ol’ bars 😁
