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Name your favorite hoard story
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Recently saw a program about the Baltimore gold hoard from the Depression.
Crazy story.
What is your favorite discovered hoard story?
One that is factual and reported in the news.
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I like the one where the silver dollars were pitched into holes in the wall (I think?) and cans of peaches were among them and when the cans burst the peach juice toned the coins. Can't remember the name of the hoard, but it did happen somewhere in Nevada I think.
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I like the one in California, where a can of gold coins was discovered on a trail, partially protruding. Dislodged, it contained a large quantity of U.S. gold coins... I forget the name of that hoard.. Cheers, RickO
Saddle Ridge hoard @ricko.
Love that story too
http://saddleridgehoard.com
@Swampboy.... That is the one.... Thank you.... A really great story ....I am a treasure hunter at heart and I love good stories - helps me to 'keep the faith' when looking for my own treasure... Some day... Cheers, RickO
I like that factual one BUT not reported, oops I've said too much.
LaVere Redfield. 400,000 coins, $7.5M or so
Most of the peach juice coins were 1924P's. That's no longer a "milk spot", We're calling it environmental damage now
The NY Subway hoard is pretty cool.
Collector, occasional seller
Not US, but I thought the Catillon II Celtic hoard was pretty cool. 70,000 coins weighing half a ton plus gold torcs.
https://www.archaeology.org/issues/263-1707/from-the-trenches/5641-trenches-jersey-celtic-coin-hoard-disassembly
Check out the time lapse video of the ~3 year disassembly.
Very good read!
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I'm torn between the Redfield hoard (Reno where I graduated college) and the Walter Samaszko hoard in Carson City. Both were about $7 million at time of being found. I think I'll just go with my hometown boy Walter.
bob
The one I am gonna find any day now. But nobody will know.
I've mentioned this before, but not lately. I once helped a local dealer process (sort and grade) a 55-gallon drum of Barber halves. He was in his 60's at the time and had a small Ford Ranger pickup. H was afraid his truck would collapse, then he thought his dining room floor would collapse. In hindsight I would have cataloged the find, but he needed the money back asap...basically before the check cleared. I picked two sets from it a VG and an AU. He had at least one roll set from it, but most of the keys were AGs.
How about this one
My favorite
Just once in my life I'd like to experience having gold coins rain down from the ceiling
https://www.monacorarecoins.com/ww-ii-gold-hoard-lanson-champagne/
https://www.bonhams.com/press_release/12696/
Tough to beat the Redfield Hoard and Mansion if you're from Northern Nevada. Growing up with silver dollars in your pocket was a main stay and Redfield just added to the mystique. The Redfields have done a lot for UNR. Take care...CC
Of course Redfield is tough to beat.....but Ted Binion put together quite a load !
Since I collect and write about the early commemorative coins mine is Lyman H. Low selling 400 Isabella Quarters in the early 1900s.
Economite
I don't believe anyone has mentioned the Randall Hoard.
Would all of the recently discovered and recovery of ship wrecks count?
It's the Redfield Hoard for me. There's a very good book about this incredible tale. The book is shown in my display from a year ago.
Louis Armstrong
And Mohawk. 😍
Liberty: Parent of Science & Industry
I would have to say mine would be the Binion Hoard and the sad story that goes along with it and then the Redfield hoard.
Without a doubt The Continental Bank Hoard.
Your hobby is supposed to be your therapy, not the reason you need it.
this
The GRAMPAW hoard!
When my grampaw died, Gramma had to cash in his silver dollars that he kept in a trunk in a bedroom closet.
We (Gramma, my mother, and I) took em to the bank.
AND.... they wouldn't take them.
BECAUSE
he had rolled them in rolls of.... 25.
Sooooooooooooooo
we had to go back to my house, open all the rolls, and roll them in 20s.
HOWEVER....
Gramma gave my cousin and me each 5 coins.
AND
Of course ....we picked the OLDEST dates we could find.
And, to this day I wonder how many in the 1890's we didn't pick.
(oh, it was 600 and some)
Now that is a cool story... and how many CC's went to the bank?? Probably never checked them...Cheers, RickO
Heck no. We KNOW older is better.
A priest, a minister, and a rabbi go into a hoard house....
Wait...I think I misunderstood.
The Binion Hoard and Binion family where quite a big deal in their day...non stop news in Nevada. I have a nice toned NGC Binion Morgan in my "Nevada" collection. Take care...CC
Throw in the currency and you may have a winner, especially on the buy side.
I only handled two ordinary bags through George Weingart but saw some of the colorful crème de la creme some ignorant paranoids now declare AT. But those were all common dates, whereas Redfield had some better S-mints. On the other other hand, Eddie Milas got an incredibly good deal, even if it was only a measly 200,000 coins