That’s right. I said it. A gold, U.S. coin worth up to $15 million has been discovered by an Egyptian couple as they cleaned out their apartment.
It’s okay. Jealousy is a perfectly natural emotion and nobody will judge you here.
So what coin was it, you ask? Well it’s a rare double eagle gold coin. First minted in 1850 and used to settle accounts between banks and other financial institutions, it is almost unheard of for one of these coins to be unearthed now-a-days. But alas, the Egyptian couple was cleaning out their apartment and discovered an old box that had once belonged to the husbands grandfather. Mohamed Ismail and his wife Fatima were throwing out old clothes and broken furniture that had been stored in a closet when they stumbled upon the box.
The first thing Ismail did was send the coin to experts, hoping that he would get a few dollars for it. He’s a simple tailor and the extra cash would have really helped the family. You can imagine his shock when the experts told him that his grandfather had left him a “unique coin of American historical value.”
Specialists believe that the double eagle coin found in Egypt could be part of Theodore Roosevelt’s 1933 collection of coins redesigned by famed American sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens and given to King Farouk of Egypt as a present.
How his grandfather got it, nobody knows. But one thing is for sure - I’ll be cleaning out my closets tonight!
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