Posted on 03/25/2021 9:00:16 AM PDT by PAUL09
A California Couple Found $10 Million In Gold Coins In Their Backyard
A California couple who discovered a $10 million cache of hidden gold coins might not be so lucky after all.
According to a published article, the coins may have been stolen from the United States Mint in 1900 and are thus government property. This image provided by the Saddle Ridge Hoard discoverers via Kagin’s, Inc., shows one of the six decaying metal canisters filled with 1800s-era U.S. gold coins unearthed in California by two people who want to remain anonymous.
According to the San Francisco Chronicle’s website–a search of the Haithi Trust Digital Library provided by Northern California fishing guide Jack Trout, who is also a historian and collector of rare coins, turned up news of the theft.
The California couple, who have not been identified, spotted the edge of an old can on a path they had hiked many times before several months ago. Poking at the can was the first step in uncovering a buried treasure of rare coins estimated to be worth $10 million.
“It was like finding a hot potato,” the couple told coin expert Don Kagin from Kagin’s, Inc. The couple hired the president of Kagin’s, Inc. and Holabird-Kagin Americana, a western Americana dealer and auctioneer, to represent them.
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I wonder what the worth is melted?
They DESERVE to have it all stripped from them. Too damned ignorant and stupid to keep their fat gobs SHUT.
THIS. THIS STUPID RIGHT HERE.
THIS is the DUMB Jesus is coming back to destroy.
Among other things...
Old story, new clickbait by regular spambot.
Will people ever be able to keep their mouths shut when they find these things?
Sounds familiar. Did this happen quite a while ago?................
First Rule of digging up buried gold coins in your yard is:
DON’T TELL ANYONE
Second Rule is:
DON’T TELL ANYONE
If they survived until 1933 they would have been melted down. This sudden infusion of supply will certainly depress the value of the surviving pieces, though I suspect the 1866 $20 dollar piece is unique enough to hold its value.
This is OLD NEWS.....................
Well done, Caltards. Your gubmint is proud of you.
Clickbait.
$1,729.90 per Troy ounce today.
Not saying anything = Tax Fraud.
Then, once you tell the government you found $10M in gold coins, they’re going to want to better understand the how, what, when and where of it all. You cannot escape the tax-man....unless you’re not afraid of prison.
Remembering the movie Goldfinger Bond was informed since gold can be melted down it’s virtually untraceable. I suppose they thought the rare coinage value might have made it worth more. Now it’s value to them might be 0.
Who knew 1900 was considered ancient?
CA will claim it; to help the homeless you know.
Double eagles weigh 0.96 Troy ounces.
So after I found five sacks of gold coins I called the county and sez,” Hey, I found three sacks of gold coins,” and they sez, “Give ‘em here, we’ll call the state. Hullo, State? One of our citizens has found two sacks of gold coins, here they are,” and the State guy sez, “Hullo, Feds? Some guy just found a sack of gold coins...” Next day the papers read “Idaho Man Finds An Antique Coin”.
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