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Amazing squirreled away stash found in Arizona

kiyotekiyote Posts: 5,573 ✭✭✭✭✭
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I have almost no details on this. I’m following the story now and will share more when I get some


"I'll split the atom! I am the fifth dimension! I am the eighth wonder of the world!" -Gef the talking mongoose.

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  • MsMorrisineMsMorrisine Posts: 33,105 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Invite them here

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  • skier07skier07 Posts: 3,975 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Wow. If I found an old stash like that my lips would be sealed.

  • Namvet69Namvet69 Posts: 8,981 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Looking forward to the details. Peace Roy

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  • CharlotteDudeCharlotteDude Posts: 3,028 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Please share details as they come forward.

    Got Crust....y gold?
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Wow... That is what treasure hunters dream of..... Would love to hear the details....Cheers, RickO

  • 1630Boston1630Boston Posts: 13,782 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Besides the beautiful old gun and great coins, notice the $500 bills. Adjusting for the change in purchasing power each one of those would be the equivalent of about $13,000 in today's money. That is a valuable cache, and the kind of thing many detectorists hope to find. This shows that it still happens.
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  • element159element159 Posts: 518 ✭✭✭

    Those $500 notes do not look real, which for me puts the whole truth of this find in doubt.
    They would be some version of Friedberg 185, which is extremely rare, and would surely be worth far more than the coins. But it does not look right.

  • Bayard1908Bayard1908 Posts: 4,051 ✭✭✭✭

    I would be suspicious about this too. The revolver is rusty, yet the Colt No. 3 derringer does not have rust on the barrel. Why did the revolver rust in a dry desert environment? The type of moisture that would cause rust would have damaged the paper money; however, the paper money looks to be in excellent condition.

    I also think that worn Morgans, a Capped Bust half, and large cents do not really go together as period spending money.

    The Colt derringer has a brass frame that would have originally been nickel plated. It takes decades of wear for the nickel plating to wear away completely. Even if the derringer was manufactured in 1870 and the cache were supposedly hidden in 1900, I'd still be suspicious.

  • No HeadlightsNo Headlights Posts: 2,053 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Was this found near a movie set? :)

  • MsMorrisineMsMorrisine Posts: 33,105 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I wondered about the combo of older dated coins with Morgans

    Perhaps the few were saved as collectors items, but that large cent doesn’t have much wear.

    Then there’s what appears to be rifle cartridges in there

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  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 28,351 ✭✭✭✭✭

    id love to hear about that as well. to ba d word is out on it

  • SaorAlbaSaorAlba Posts: 7,544 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @element159 said:
    Those $500 notes do not look real, which for me puts the whole truth of this find in doubt.
    They would be some version of Friedberg 185, which is extremely rare, and would surely be worth far more than the coins. But it does not look right.

    They are that fake parchment paper. I agree with you, I smell a skunk.

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  • doubleeagle07doubleeagle07 Posts: 444 ✭✭✭

    @No Headlights said:
    Was this found near a movie set? :)

    Yeah for a movie called Rust with Alec Baldwin. He was looking for that gun.

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  • kiyotekiyote Posts: 5,573 ✭✭✭✭✭

    So from what I understand it’s from a book cover! Anyone who didn’t think this past the smell test is probably right

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  • kiyotekiyote Posts: 5,573 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Now I feel bad for bringing it up 🙈

    "I'll split the atom! I am the fifth dimension! I am the eighth wonder of the world!" -Gef the talking mongoose.
  • element159element159 Posts: 518 ✭✭✭

    @kiyote said:
    Now I feel bad for bringing it up 🙈

    No, don't feel bad! It was a good test, if the contents really made sense.

  • Namvet69Namvet69 Posts: 8,981 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Well, maybe Forrest Fenn buried 2 treasure chests and he forgot about this one. Just maybe? Peace Roy

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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Shucks.... You guys are right... I was all too ready to believe it was real.... Dreamer that I am... :D Cheers, RickO

  • Steven59Steven59 Posts: 8,706 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Unfortunately now a days, people will do anything to get "Hits" on their social media pages. Great sleuthing from the forum members!

    "When they can't find anything wrong with you, they create it!"

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Great sleuthing indeed, however, to those of us with the 'treasure fever', disappointing. Cheers, RickO

  • JimnightJimnight Posts: 10,846 ✭✭✭✭✭

    There is a slight odor.

  • JBKJBK Posts: 15,611 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That's alright - it was a good exercise and people here sussed it out pretty quickly.

  • rte592rte592 Posts: 1,681 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 29, 2021 3:23PM

    OK so That one doesn't check all the boxes :o
    On to the next one :)
    I was out in the Arizona desert this morning mining (some of that was detecting)
    I didn't find any strong boxes.
    Did see some squirrels...fed them some freetos.

  • streeterstreeter Posts: 4,312 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Dte
    Looks like paradise. The snakes are underground this time of year.

    I do gunshows in AZ and there is a friend who sits next to me that completely stunned me at the last show. I knew he detected but that's a world I'm unfamiliar with. He showed me a large pill bottle with nuggets up to 8 or 9 gram size. He and friends use pretty expensive equipment. Strictly recreation. I asked him how far down he goes. " Sometimes several feet".
    He has his favorite spots. They go in groups of 2-4 guys with their dogs(great alarms if snakes are present) and usually boondocks overnight. I hate Mojave Green otherwise I'd be tempted.

    Have a nice day
  • Bayard1908Bayard1908 Posts: 4,051 ✭✭✭✭

    @streeter said:
    I hate Mojave Green otherwise I'd be tempted.

    When I was young, I killed about a dozen rattlesnakes while out on various hunting trips in Southern California. These rattlesnakes ranged from eight feet in length down to about two feet long. The smaller the snake, the more aggressive it proved to be. The most aggressive of all was a small Mojave Green that went out of it's way to pursue me. I shot the thing practically between my ankles.

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I lived in AZ for eight years.... Never had a problem with rattlers... saw quite a few since I spent a lot of time in the desert. Cheers, RickO

  • streeterstreeter Posts: 4,312 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Bayard
    I've had a few encounters. None pleasant. Since I bought the joint in Prescott, my neighbors have regailed me with snake stories. I'm not there all the time but I'm darn glad I carry outside and have a dog to warm me.
    BTW, I was informed that greens carry a big penalty now for dispatching them. Protected specie. Protected my rats bizzou. I guess, Better to take them alive and collect the $1,000 live bounty in Phoenix. Going to a show in Wickenburg next weekend and bringing lots of 22 and 9mm snake shot. Still warm there. Snow level currently about 7,000 ft and dropping.

    Have a nice day
  • rte592rte592 Posts: 1,681 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 11, 2021 6:49PM

    I fell into a snake den when I was an early teenager up to my waist.

    Hit the bottom and shot up like a cartoon character with my feet in motion (according to my brother and the friend I was walking in between)

    I don't care for snakes.

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Knowledge of snakes (habitat etc.) and caution are necessary when in snake country. I always preferred the desert to the mountains here in the east when in the wild. Much harder to see them during summer and fall with the heavy growth and then the leaves. Cheers, RickO

  • metalmeistermetalmeister Posts: 4,586 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I like Arizona, but don't like snakes. We have plenty of rattlers in California. Nuggets too up north.
    Would be sweet if story was true. There is still buried loot out there!

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