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.
Nothing happening and they need clicks. The usual for a blog.
Corrupt govts won’t even pay a finder’s fee.
1,427 coins in a can, another story about 1,427 coins found in a tree..........This story is very confusing.......
The government would claim it was theirs no matter what. Governments lie.
Third rule:
Work on your poker face so you don’t smile when you don’t tell them.
They're Californians. They can't learn.
How can the government possibly prove these were stolen? Coins don’t have serial numbers.
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[ How can the government possibly prove these were stolen? Coins don’t have serial numbers. ]
They simply SAY it and it is somehow true...
Hey I just found $10 million in gold!
Alert the media!
Tell all my friends!
Post it on facebook!
See pictures of the gold on twitter!
Whatever happened to “Finders Keepers, losers weepers”?
Best to keep quiet about such finds. Yeah, you can cash a bit of it in. Or re-melt it into a different coin and sell it.
Loose lips sink ships, particularly when the greedy government tries to get involved.
Gold is very easy to melt.
I believe this is an old story.
Was the 10 million the value of the gold melt or the collector’s value of the coins themselves?
I bet they found Seven metal containers.
Find coins.
Check Google to see what they are and where they possibly came from.
Melt them down.
Visit various We Buy Gold Businesses and sell off the Gold at $1800 an ounce.
Enjoy Life.
Yeah that’s the problem. This whole issue might have been resolved or ended years ago so all our speculation could be moot but if on the odd chance it isn’t this couple needs to call Unfortunate Boating Accidents R Us.
Rich folks often like to hear their own voice even if they sound rediculous.
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