Quote Originally Posted by alamo5000 View Post
How much are those worth?

I was in banking for a while and have similar stories. Like way more crazy than that.

One guy was super nice but down on his luck was a regular customer. His parents passed away when he was young so he was raised by his grandparents.

When they both passed away he brought in a bunch of stock certificates and said "I counted them up and if they are still good at today's prices it should be around $50,000".

Little did he know but they were stock certificates from a huge company and those shares were issued in the 1950s.

He netted something like 1.3 million dollars.
A 70 year investment that yields 1.3M is actually hardly impressive.