Scripture
Matthew 25:25
Proverbs 31:10-13,19-20,30-31; Psalm 128:1-5; I Thessalonians 5:1-6; Matthew 25:14-30
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In February 2013, a couple in Northern California took their dog for a walk along a path on their property. They had walked it for years. There was nothing remarkable about the place, nothing to suggest that a fortune had been lying a few inches beneath their feet. Then the husband noticed the rusted edge of a metal can showing through the moss.
A year later, the Los Angeles Times reported what happened. The couple, identified only as John and Mary, dug the can out of the ground. It was heavy. When they opened it, they found gold coins, darkened with dirt but otherwise remarkably well preserved. They looked around and found another can, then another. By the time they were finished, they had uncovered eight of them.
Inside were 1,427 American gold coins minted between 1847 and 1894. Their face value came to about $28,000. Their real value was considerably more. Some were among the finest examples of their kind ever found. One twenty-dollar…
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