The Full Story of the Great Kentucky Hoard [12:20]

YouTube ^ | December 4, 2025 | KET - Kentucky Educational Television

[SunkenCiv]

How did more than $3 million in Civil War era gold coins end up in a farm field, somewhere in Kentucky? Everyone from the Washington Post to USA Today to major TV news networks covered this story last summer when it first broke, but in this segment you'll hear for the first time from the Lexington coin dealer who brokered the sale of the coins when he was first approached by the farmer who literally stumbled upon them. You'll also hear from a UK professor about why she thinks the coins were buried in the first place, and from some modern-day treasure hunters here in Kentucky. 

The Full Story of the Great Kentucky Hoard | 12:20 
KET - Kentucky Educational Television | 44K subscribers | 19,897 views | December 4, 2025

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TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: coins; dentsrun; epigraphyandlanguage; godsgravesglyphs; gold; greatkentuckyhoard; kentucky; saddleridgehoard

[SunkenCiv]

For the first time ever, hear insights from the farmer who found more than $3 million in gold coins in a Kentucky farm field. Learn about the moment he stumbled across what's now known as the Great Kentucky Hoard, how his family has been searching for items from the past for generations, and his advice to treasure hunters looking to stumble across the next great discovery.

He Found the Great Kentucky Hoard - Here's What He Told Us | 7:04
KET - Kentucky Educational Television | 44K subscribers | 449,943 views | May 11, 2024

[SunkenCiv]

There was no transcript available so I also linked an earlier version of the events from the same source.

[Jamestown1630]

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[Chainmail]

While I’m envious, I am happy this guy found it…

[algore]

Last I heard the FBI stole it in the dead of night

[algore]

or maybe that was another guy
https://drgnews.com/2023/10/07/treasure-hunters-sue-for-records-on-fbis-civil-war-gold-dig/

[kiryandil]

I thought that one was in Pennsylvania...

[Governor Dinwiddie]

What's all this talk I hear about the Great Kentucky Whore?

[SunkenCiv]

“...The bank manager asked, ‘my goodness, did you hoard all that money by yourself?’ and the woman replied, ‘no, my sister hoard half of it.’”

[SunkenCiv]

You’ve heard of Intercourse, Pennsylvania? That other find was inside the borders of Delusional System, Pennsylvania.

[SunkenCiv]

Same here. I do wonder what the origin story was for its having been hidden in the first place. When the gold coins got called in by FDR, my grandpa complied because he really didn’t have any option, financially. Otherwise there’d be secret map to where he buried them in a mason jar. I’m sure his stash wasn’t a hoard per se.

sidebar:
https://freerepublic.com/tag/dentsrun/index

[Freedom4US]

A similar (if a lot better) story out of northern California several years back. A couple out walking their dog on their property found an old rusty can sticking out of the ground around some tree roots. I think their dog might have been sniffing around it. They pried it out of the ground. It was very heavy. They thought maybe it might have paint in it.

It wasn’t filled with paint, it was stuffed with pristine, fresh from the mint $20 gold eagles from the 1840s thru the 1860s. They dug around some more and found more cans, filled with $5 and $10 and $20 gold pieces. The gold value alone was high, but the collector value was off the chart, as they were immediately categorized as “among the finest known” specimens for certain rare dates and mintmarks. Good Dog!

[SunkenCiv]

We Were Wrong About Gold’s Origin
13:01
Dr Ben Miles (”Physicist | Entrepreneur | Investor | YouTuber”)
2.18M subscribers
1,448,140 views
June 2, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fX7Uzgv8yPU

and:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=gold+in+earth+crust

[SunkenCiv]

The rest of the 'saddleridgehoard' keyword, sorted:

• A California Couple Found $10 Million In Gold Coins In Their Backyard [03/25/2021]
• Family wins back 1933 $20 Double Eagle gold coins worth $80 million seized by feds [04/18/2015]
• $10M Gold Coin Hoard Found in Yard May Have Been Stolen From Mint [03/04/2014]
• Couple who found $10m hoard of gold coins could have broken law [02/28/2014]
• Could newly discovered gold coins be the haul stolen by ... San Francisco Mint employee in 1901? [02/26/2014]
• Could newly discovered gold coins be the haul stolen by SF Mint employee in 1901? [GOLD COINS] [02/26/2014]
• Calif. couple strike $10 million gold-coin bonanza [02/25/2014]

[SunkenCiv]

earlier on FR:

• Kentucky man finds over 700 Civil War-era coins buried in his cornfield [07/10/2023]
• Kentucky man finds over 700 Civil War-era coins buried in his cornfield [07/10/2023]

[SunkenCiv]

The rest of the 'dentsrun' keyword, sorted:

• Witnesses to FBI hunt for Civil War gold describe heavily loaded armored truck, signs of a night dig [10/08/2023]
• Three Men Battle the FBI Over Buried Civil War Gold. 'Stuff Just Doesn't Add Up.'...Treasure hunters are aiming to prove there were tons of loot in the ground in Pennsylvania -- and that the government took it [08/07/2023]
• Treasure hunter accused FBI of a 'major cover up' claiming agents made off with missing $500M in Civil War gold in middle of the night after he found long-lost burial site [08/06/2023]
• A metal detectorist is suing the FBI, claiming he alerted them to 7 tons of Civil War-era gold and they took it away in a secret overnight dig [02/20/2023]
• Treasure hunters accuse FBI of making off with tons of Civil War gold [06/17/2022]
• Did FBI cover-up $400M Civil War gold find? Bureau dug for Pennsylvania loot after geophysicist said there was NINE TON fortune underground - as treasure hunters call for their fair share [05/29/2022]
• FBI records on search for fabled gold raise more questions [05/28/2022]
• Judge Orders FBI to Produce Records on Civil War Gold Hunt [05/27/2022]
• Treasure hunters who believe they led FBI to huge cache of fabled Civil War-era gold in Pennsylvania sue the agency for failing to reveal what they found in secret excavation four years ago [01/06/2022]
• Affidavit: FBI feared Pennsylvania would seize fabled gold [06/26/2021]
• Emails: FBI was looking for gold at Pennsylvania dig site [03/10/2021]
• Did The FBI Steal Tons Of Civil War Gold? [03/10/2021]
• Did the FBI Find $400M in Civil War Gold in a Pa. Forest? Harrisburg Lawyer Says He Has New Clue in the Case [01/28/2021]
• Civil War gold treasure hunters, lawyer say FBI acting 'suspicious' [10/11/2018]
• FBI dig at rumored site of fabled Civil War treasure comes up short [03/20/2018]
• Legend says a load of Union gold went missing during the Civil War. Did the FBI just find it? [03/18/2018]
• Has $55MILLION of gold lost during the Battle of Gettysburg finally been discovered? [tr] [03/17/2018]
• Has lost Civil War gold bound for Philly been found? [03/16/2018]