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$10M Gold Coin Hoard Found in Yard May Have Been Stolen From Mint
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| 3/4/14
| By DINA ABOU SALEM and BILL MCGUIRE
Posted on 03/04/2014 11:01:21 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda
$10M Gold Coin Hoard Found in Yard May Have Been Stolen From Mint
A California couple who found a stash of buried gold coins valued at $10 million may not be so lucky after all. The coins may have been stolen from the US Mint in 1900 and thus be the property of the government, according to a published report.
The San Francisco Chronicle's website reported that 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 the 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.
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KEYWORDS: california; epigraphyandlanguage; godsgravesglyphs; money; saddleridgehoard
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To: StolarStorm
The government will not be putting these coins into a museum, they will be selling them for their own profit and keeping all the money to waste themselves.
Better they where melted down and used in the real economy for a beneficial matter.
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03/04/2014 5:28:42 PM PST
by
Jim from C-Town
(The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
It was funny and I don’t mind being called out when I mess up. It teaches me that I should learn to proof read my own comments. I post on a few different sites and keep forgetting that this one has no edit opportunity.
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posted on
03/04/2014 5:53:36 PM PST
by
Baynative
(Got bulbs? Check my profile page.)
To: Sherman Logan
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posted on
03/04/2014 11:18:12 PM PST
by
A CA Guy
( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
To: kiryandil
I guess I’m an odd conservative. I always thought if I found valuable property it was my obligation to try to find the real owner.
I know it’s not mine. I didn’t earn it or inherit it. I have no moral right to it. There is a very good chance that it’s stolen property and receiving it is itself a crime and always has been.
All states have laws specifying how property of this type is supposed to be handled when found. Most of these laws are not recent or tyrannical, but are many decades old. In most of the states, if I follow these rules, I’ll obtain legal title unless the true owners are found.
Yet the consensus of the discussion on this thread appears to be about how to more effectively break the law and get away with it. Doesn’t seem very conservative to me. I always thought a key component of conservatism was a respect for the law, obeying it even when I could get away with breaking it, because obeying the law is the right thing to do.
To: Sherman Logan
Gads, you’re a well-trained little peasant.
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posted on
03/05/2014 6:10:49 AM PST
by
kiryandil
(turning Americans into felons, one obnoxious drunk at a time (Zero Tolerance!!!))
To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
"I dont usually pick on typos, unless theyre funny." I've been spoiled by spell check and grammar corrections that trained me to skip my own proof reading. The correct spelling of a wrong word can slip through. It's passing me off and I'm getting tired of this shut!
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03/05/2014 9:41:04 AM PST
by
Baynative
(Got bulbs? Check my profile page.)
To: Baynative
Spell czech is knot yore friend!
Note: this topic is from . Thanks GrandJediMasterYoda.
- The Saddle Ridge Treasure of U.S. Gold Coins
- According to Donald Kagin, Kagin's has an exclusive arrangement with Amazon.com to sell the coins through their collectibles store. This arrangement is the first major sale of coins made through Amazon. John and Mary have also chosen to use the funds to cover their personal debt and donate to several local charities. They have additionally chosen to retain some of the coins for family heirlooms and keepsakes.
Following the initial discovery of the coins, there was widespread speculation that the hoard represented the discovery of the 1901 theft of $30,000 from the San Francisco Mint by employee Walter Dimmick. Kagin's and the U.S. Mint ruled out this theory, stating that the Saddle Ridge Hoard is unlikely to be part of the mint heist, due to the diversity in the face value and condition of the coins. On March 4, 2014, The U.S. Mint stated that " do not have any information linking the Saddle Ridge Hoard coins to any thefts at any United States Mint facility", and " done quite a bit of research, and we've got a crack team of lawyers, and trust me, if this was U.S. government property we'd be going after it."
Other disregarded theories contend that the hoard is a hidden stash of gold buried by Jesse James, or loot taken by Black Bart, who was known for robbing stagecoaches. A theory has also been advanced that the hoard was part of a treasure supposedly hidden by the Knights of the Golden Circle, to be used to fund a second Civil War. The predominant theory attributes the cache to an unknown individual who chose to bury the coins rather than trust the banks to protect his wealth. While the couple who found the coins have remained anonymous and the location of the find is undisclosed, several individuals have attempted to claim the gold coins or a share of the profits, asserting that the money belonged to one of their relatives or associates. -- WikiPedia - Keyword: saddleridgehoard
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04/30/2018 5:06:38 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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