Buried Gold Coins
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Just got done reading the book "Stickey Fingers", a book about Jann Wenner, creator of Rolling Stone magazine. In one chapter it was mentioned that $25,000 in gold coins were unearthed on his farm. No other details in the book. So Googled it and it led to an interesting read. Thought it would be of interest here. 96 coins in a buried Mason jar supposedly by the owner of a bordello which long ago was located on his farm land in Idaho. Has anyone else here aware of this story? I Googled "Jann Wenner gold coins discovered on his farm" to read various accounts of the find.
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Interesting, I'll read it, thanks for the post !!!
That's why people enjoy metal detecting...you never know.
Sometimes I think that animals are smarter than humans, animals would never allow the dumbest one to lead the pack
Thanks for the information. I had not heard of this one.... I love buried treasure stories....Never outgrew that fantasy. Cheers, RickO
When gold comes in the front door common sense goes out the back.
A dumb and dumber movie to follow
I heard of a good gold story.
In summary in the So. Cal. desert two men found some gold coins on federal lands. They took possession of same. One of the men told others in the local small town about it. The story was reported in the small town paper. Other papers reran the story and it eventually was publicized in national papers. One such story was read by a civil servant back in D.C. who got the ball rolling by bringing the story to the attention of higher ups. Eventually the US Attorney's Office in So. Cal. got involved. Legal proceedings were initiated against the two men who found the gold coins to recover the coins (since they were found of federal land they belonged to the feds). The men had the gold coins taken from them by uncle sam.
The one guy should have kept his mouth shut.
I would have tried to keep that a little more quiet. I wouldn't want any visits from the taxman
there is a saying, "two people can keep a secret if one is dead." crazy story though!
"A little soap and water..."
Uh oh.
What is now proved was once only imagined. - William Blake
@3keepSECRETif2rDEAD
I herd frum a friend that Jesse James buried gold, lots of gold, somewhere in Oklahoma. A guy sold me a map a couple years ago and one day I'm gone looking.
The motto of cache hunters (metal detectors that look for treasure caches) is "Tell no one!!" If word gets out, claims will come from all over.... Never, never, ever say a word about major finds.
Cheers, RickO
When the family brought me the Saddle Ridge material, this was one of the situations we looked at very carefully.
What is now proved was once only imagined. - William Blake
In my first shop, a termite inspector came in. He had....SOME.... of the jar of gold coins he found when probing a dirt wall basement.
I don't think he noted it on his report.
There needs to be a thread on the documented hoard discoveries. Small and large...
I am not shocked, nor do I doubt many more will be found.
Three hundred years... Two major continental wars, mistrust of banks, mistrust of government, mistrust of the king, border wars, Indian wars. That is just east of the Mississippi!
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A guy sold me a map a couple years ago
There's money in them there maps!!!!! I should make more maps!
Oak Island will make all these others trivial.
I am still looking to find and buy an old bank building that has a hidden vault filled with Srooge McDuck's diving board and pool filled with gold coins.
If I am successful, no one will ever know.
From B. Traven's book The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, published in 1935:
A scene from the 1948 film "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre"
The film ends rather badly for Humphrey Bogart.
The Mysterious Egyptian Magic Coin
Coins in Movies
Coins on Television
B. Traven - his identity still an enigma.
http://j-nelson.net/2014/10/twenty-writers-b-traven-the-treasure-of-the-sierra-madre/
You can read his words, and still hear Walter Huston paraphrase them in the movie. John Huston planned the movie around his father, and he got an Academy award. Tim Holt (the other guy in the photo) was in several excellent films, but basically followed the steps of his father, Jack Holt, with a long career in second tier westerns.
A very young Robert 'Baretta" Blake was in the movie as well. Was a child actor at the time.
Yes. Blake sold Bogart part of the winning lottery ticket. Who knew he would murder his wife decades later?!
Moral of the story:
1) Never go into business with a partner if you can go it alone
2) The lawyers always win in the end
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Very much agree with 2.
Fantastic piece on Traven and "Treasure!"
John Huston's autobiography- "An Open Book" - has a bit on B. Traven. Still no definitive answer though. A mystery wrapped within an enigma.