My family has a few family Bibles that predate 1830 and, unlike the fabled gold plates, there was nothing special or unique about these Bibles when my ancestors first purchased them. We’re talking about golden plates that God told you how to find and translate, one would think that this is something you would keep track of.
Especially given this quote from FAIR.lds. Of course, the plates were "taken back". Seems a little strange to me that God wouldn't know in advance that His "Restored Gospel" would be better presented with the aid of those plates.
Joseph's money-digging youth is certainly no secret. When asked if he was a money digger, Joseph said, "Yes, but it was never a very profitable job...only got fourteen dollars a month for it."83 His mother, Lucy Mack Smith, explained the prevalent money digging story as originating from Joseph's employment as a hired silver mine digger for Josiah Stowell. Lucy said that Joseph "endeavored to divert [Stowell] from his vain pursuit,"84 however, he ultimately succumbed, as Richard Bushman concludes, to "pressure from neighbors, from the enthusiastic and well-off Josiah Stowell, from his own father, and from cruel, unrelenting poverty."