Could newly discovered gold coins be the haul stolen by ... San Francisco Mint employee in 1901?

The Daily Mail Online ^ | February 26, 2014 | CHRIS WHITE IN SAN FRANCISCO and DAVID MCCORMACK Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article

[DesertRhino]

Here we go....

[catnipman]

Agreed.

But there’s a few problems with this SF Mint “theft” theory:

1. The coins would all have to have “S” mint marks, which
is not the case here.

2. The dates on these coins are all decades older than
the time period in which the putative thief worked
at the mint.

3. The dates would likely have all been duplicates from
just a few years, which is not the case with the
discovered cache.

[DesertRhino]

Should have taken a few to the auction house, and sold them. You aren’t required to say where you got a coin.

[matthew fuller]

Your theory does seem likely.

[Smokin' Joe]

In another article I recall reading how the coins had been put in the cans roughly by date, oldest on the bottom of one can, getting younger toward the top, then the next can having slightly younger on the bottom, with youngest coins in that can on top, and continuing in the third can to the youngest coins. There were different mints and denominations represented, not just double eagles.

Sounds like someone saved the coins over a period of years, not a grab of double eagles from the same mint at the same time.

Nice try, but I think these folks are entitled to their find.

[Kirkwood]

$30,000 in $20 coins is 1500 coins, not 500. 1500 minus 1427 = 73 unaccounted for.

[plainshame]

I smell government sniffing for lost gold with no claim.