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.
in Calif you have to prove where you got the gold you want to sell - has to do with claimjumping laws and carries a 5 year penalty. Gold assayers and buyers know the rules by heart.
More from 2014
https://www.cnn.com/2014/03/04/us/california-gold-discovery
More photos
https://blog.sfgate.com/stienstra/2014/03/03/sf-heist-in-1900-may-explain-buried-gold-treasure/#photo-415238
I wonder what happened to the real owner?
Indians? sunstroke? Killed when he was caught in bed with another man’s wife?
Seven years ago.
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“I wonder what happened to the real owner?
Indians? sunstroke? Killed when he was caught in bed with another man’s wife?”
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According to some FReepers, he/she would almost certainly have died due to a bad reaction to a COVID-19 shot. And don’t try to tell them that would be highly unlikely.
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