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There’s real treasure hidden around Boston this week — here’s how to join the hunt
Stack’s Bowers Galleries is giving away gold coins and rare currency worth more than $10,000. Here's the first clue.
Bostonians can go treasure hunting this week — with prizes that include rare coins and historic bank notes worth more than $10,000.
Stack’s Bower Galleries is hosting a citywide treasure hunt from Oct. 7 to 11, hiding one certificate each day at a Boston landmark. Each certificate can be redeemed for rare gold coins or historical banknotes dating back more than a century.
New clues will be released at 10 a.m. each day on the company’s Instagram page. The hunt is open to the public. Whoever finds a certificate must bring it to Stack’s Bowers’ Boston gallery to claim their prize.
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Tuesday’s winner, for example, will take home a 1907 $2.50 gold coin. Later in the week, prizes include an 1881 Morgan silver dollar and a 1924 Saint Gaudens $20 gold piece worth $3,500, according to Stack’s Bower.
All prizes are coins or currency over 100-years-old — some related to Boston’s banking history while others are milestone dates like the birth of the Federal Reserve in 1907.
Here’s the clue for Tuesday’s hunt:
“Where fashion stands in retail grace,
Once stood a store of bygone pace.
Amid the modern, seek the old—
A coin of pine, a cent of gold.”
The hunt from the rare coin auctioneer will later move to Philadelphia, Miami, and New York.
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