Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

$10M Gold Coin Hoard Found in Yard May Have Been Stolen From Mint
YAHOO NEWS ^ | 04 TUESDAY 2014 | YAHOO NEWS

Posted on 03/04/2014 4:39:40 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist

click here to read article


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-42 next last
To: Fai Mao

That’s just about the stupidest comment with respect to this story I’ve heard... congrats.


21 posted on 03/04/2014 5:38:37 PM PST by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: castlegreyskull

Just curious, any anecdotes about what kind of things you had happen as a result if talking you would be willing to share?


22 posted on 03/04/2014 5:38:48 PM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: Axenolith

It isn’t THAT stupid. Flushing 12 million in numismatic value (coming with extremely high risk of confiscation), in exchange for a far safer 2 million in scrap value is very rational for some people’s situations.

Risk,,,, Benefit. Its a balancing act


23 posted on 03/04/2014 5:42:51 PM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 21 | View Replies]

To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

The statute of limitations expires in 7 years, after which you get to keep the gold, even if you robbed bars of gold bullion out of the U.S. Government repository at Fort Knox, so long as you can prove you remained in the jurisdiction for the full 7 years.


24 posted on 03/04/2014 5:42:54 PM PST by WhiskeyX ( provides a system for registering complaints about unfair broadcasters and the ability to request a)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Stupid is as stupid does. Anyone could see this coming mile away, and they deserve everything that they won’t get. They should have said nothing to anyone, set up a dozen different companies in different states, and gradually sold off the coins over 10 or 15 years.

I sincerely hope that these idiots are big government liberals, since it would be the height of irony for them to have been screwed by the very government that they worship.


25 posted on 03/04/2014 5:49:22 PM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: GraceG

Family story is that my great grandfather did just that. Wonder how far away from where they lived these were found.


26 posted on 03/04/2014 5:50:39 PM PST by momto6
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: DesertRhino

You could have EASILY gotten these to market for the numismatic value. All they had to do was say they were handed down through the family, etc... It’s not to difficult to come up with a plausible story that doesn’t involve putting blood in the water for pestilential bureaucrats or lawyers.

And it is the lawyers who will burn this trove. I already predicted on another thread that there are lawyers right now trying to noodle out that location and as soon as they get it, they will title search that place and contact the surviving relatives of EVERY single person who ever held title to that land and be approaching them with “Do you think there is ANY possibility that you’re [insert relative here] ever stashed things on his former property that he actually meant to be passed down?”

From what other treasure hunters I’ve talked to have told me, you can win every one of those hits, but you end up spending most or all of the treasure defending against them...

As for melting them, I LOVE old real money. That money is the absolute symbol of formerly free America and the sweat of the founders children and grandchildren forging a nation. Melting them is one more tiny step to eliminating the individualist symbolism that represents true American spirit.


27 posted on 03/04/2014 6:02:01 PM PST by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 23 | View Replies]

To: WhiskeyX

Tell that to the people that were stupid enough to send their 10 1933 St Gaudens to the treasury for “verification”...


28 posted on 03/04/2014 6:03:06 PM PST by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 24 | View Replies]

To: GraceG

Grandpap always refered to that time as “Back when Roosevelt stole everybodies gold”.

Roosevelt ranks way up there in my top American douchebags list.


29 posted on 03/04/2014 6:05:07 PM PST by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: Axenolith

Unlike other metals, gold does not deteriorate. This is why gold dug out of Egyptian tombs looks as new as the day it was minted or cast into an object.


30 posted on 03/04/2014 6:05:12 PM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 20 | View Replies]

To: WhiskeyX

https://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL31253.pdf

The above link goes to a pdf document describing the federal statute of limitations and listing the various time limitations. I think the longest time is 20 years for a major art theft. All the others are less except for terrorism, various types of murder, and sex trafficking in children, nuclear weapons, biological weapons; these sorts of crimes have no statute of limitations. I did not read the statute in great detail but the only reference to banks and financial institutions involved murder during the commission of the robbery. I think they are home free. Please note, as always. free legal opinions are worth what you paid for them


31 posted on 03/04/2014 6:06:31 PM PST by Holdem Or Foldem (Life isn't fair, so wear a cup.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 24 | View Replies]

To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Government has mineral & property rights, i.e., gold & cannons, e.g., man digs up circa 1760’s cannon in side of back yard hill & Uncle Sam claims it.


32 posted on 03/04/2014 6:23:35 PM PST by Insigne123 (It is the soldier, not the community organizer, who gives us freedom of the press)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: DesertRhino

I played blackjack. I played fast and heavy. In the matter of a couple months I gathered about $180,000 from this. Of course I didn’t keep a secret, and people I barely remember came out of the cracks. Also some of my family members and my circle of friends seemed to begin treating me differently, like a subtle jealousy. Maybe I was different as well. One guy, I barely knew, asked me to lend him 1200 to buy bike rims for his road bike. He didn’t give me the impression that he had any real interest in paying me back. My girlfriend at the time, complained that I could have afforded “better” gifts. I got rid of her, as fast as I could.

I lost over half of my winnings, before I quit completely, and never brought up the subject again with anyone I knew.


33 posted on 03/04/2014 6:24:17 PM PST by castlegreyskull
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 22 | View Replies]

To: castlegreyskull

“I once had an experience where I found myself instantly more wealthy. I regretted telling anyone about it. These folk should have never said a word.”

Dont you just hate it when that happens, my long lost beloved uncle castlegreyskull?


34 posted on 03/04/2014 6:25:36 PM PST by lowbridge
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: Axenolith

“It’s not the coins lost from the mint.”

Then its coins used in a drug deal /government


35 posted on 03/04/2014 6:28:42 PM PST by lowbridge
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]

To: lowbridge

There is some truth to this.

My Aunt who I spoken with maybe 10 times in my life asked me to help her with a mortgage payment when she heard of my good fortune.


36 posted on 03/04/2014 6:32:07 PM PST by castlegreyskull
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 34 | View Replies]

To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

I’m reminded of the Aesop tale of the fox and the crow.


37 posted on 03/04/2014 6:32:31 PM PST by SkyDancer (I Believe In The Law Until It Intereferes With Justice.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
may not be so lucky after all

I never thought they were lucky in the first place. Given that sewer of a state they live in, and given the proclivities of the federal govt, I knew they'd never see a dime.

And people saying they should have sold it in secret? Yeah, coins worth a million $ each would be a cinch to keep secret.

Me? I would have melted it down for just the gold. At least it would be something. At this point I wouldn't be surprised if the pigs in kal took it and somehow managed to penalize the couple for the discovery.

38 posted on 03/04/2014 6:34:18 PM PST by LouAvul (In a state of disbelief as to how liberals destroyed America in a mere 40 years.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Dr. Sivana

When you have the superior firepower, there is no statute of limitations.


39 posted on 03/04/2014 6:49:22 PM PST by ctdonath2 (Making good people helpless doesn't make bad people harmless.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: Insigne123

No they don’t. Unless you’re in some other country. Stuff may fall under the antiquities act if it’s on federal land, but in the west, you can claim minerals on open federal land and they’re yours (pursuant to 1872 mining law et. al.).

East operates under leases.

Private property is also private mineral rights unless they’ve been separated in the past (See the many whiners in N and S Dakota with respect to neighbors making a mint on oil rights while they get jack because they bought land for less that didn’t come with them).


40 posted on 03/04/2014 7:56:50 PM PST by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 32 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-42 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson