Holy cow, what an asshole!
The paystub was in an oily envelope on the pile of oily pennies.
I bet this grade A asshole voted for Trump. Both times.
You could volunteer…
But even before any valuable coins are found, Andreas Flaten could secretly buy a valuable penny and very publicly get it appraised at, say, $100. He could then honestly say (on camera, of course) “I’ve barely started to look through those pennies. Who knows how many of them are valuable. Thanks, AOK Autoworks!”
eta: Ooh, not just appraised… get the local news to shoot Andreas selling a penny to a local coin shop, and the proprietor says “I’ve never seen such a perfect example of this [1909-S Indian Head Penny with the Indian Smoking A Peace Pipe]! Here’s $450! Now, you need to get back to searching that pile, who knows what else you’ll find!”
I can almost hear it:
“Your honor, here’s a paystub… but we claim there was no check enclosed with it. We are here today requesting a copy of the cancelled paycheck to show my client was paid.”