800 gold coins found Kentucky cornfield
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Wasn't sure if this is old news: I did not come across it in the search function
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"The Great Kentucky Hoard."
Was just reading about this in CoinWorld. Apparently. Some varieties and errors found, along with Dahlonega Mint specimens. Loose coins in a cornfield, the mystery may never be solved regarding how they got there:
https://www.coinworld.com/news/us-coins/gold-coin-hoard-totaling-800-pieces-found-in-kentucky
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Pictures of the find from NGC's article here:
https://www.ngccoin.com/news/article/11795/kentucky-hoard-civil-war-coins/
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What an amazing discovery, the dream of all treasure hunters. I cannot imagine the excitement as coin after coin emerged from the soil. WOW!! Cheers, RickO
Wowzers! What an incredible find!
The ones that were available for sale may have all been sold and I don’t see anything about prices. It seems like nothing was sent to CAC unlike the Fairmont hoard.
https://www.govmint.com/great-kentucky-hoard
The 1863 20$ are incredible
I wonder what % of the hoard will cross to PCGS. Would PCGS keep the pedigree designation? I would think that would impact one's decision whether to cross or not!
wow: what a lucky guy or gal. I found a $20 bill once and thought I was lucky.
Who owns the coins? Am I to understand that they were all sold? Never went to auction?
Do I understand correctly?
Looks like the hoard was marketed and fully sold out through the GovMint.com website
Some people have all the luck! Oh well, I'll just keep working hard to earn the money so I can continue buying all the coins I love!
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Is this story triggering anyone’s BS meter?
Any way to see an inventory of the dates found?
The marketing on Gov Mint is a curious choice, but a news article on the NGC website would confirm the hoard
Who's regiment didn't get paid for the months pay?
North or South?
My father worked in Alaska during the 1960's as a smokeJumper. An old guy who had been there since Wyatt Earp days, said he knew him (according to my father), owned a bar and you could only use silver dollars and gold coins in the 1960's. He had a hoard of gold buried and no one knew where it was. My father came back one spring and he had died. No one knew where his gold was buried. My father, saw it once and it was so many Mason jars he was shocked. He was 80 something in the mid/lower 1960's. Some day that hoard will be found.
Nice find
Clearly wartime stolen payroll or something I'd bet.
Most fitting for Father's Day.
Very interesting. Yes Wyatt Earp had a connection to Alaska. I was hired on to fight forrest fires in the late 60s but spent most of my time moving rocks to clear an airfield. Then just the day when I was scheduled to go out on a fire by helicopter another opportunity opened up that ended up taking me to Japan. Those like your Dad who did the smopkejumping were an elite group.
Getting back to the topic of hidden gold there was a couple just down the street from me who did some gold mining. He passed away and eventually she suffered from dementia and was moved to a group home. When her garage was being cleaned out preparatory to putting the house up for sale ammunition boxes of gold nuggets were discovered.
There's something weird about it.
"Garrett said most of the coins were found loose in the ground"
Isn't that unusual?
Not found by a metal detector.
Then how?
And supposedly only one coin was damaged.
A treasure hunters dream / lifetime bonanza.
Garrett IS the metal detector. :-)
Likely found loose due to the soil being plowed for many years.
Shoot, I thought I hid them better!
Maybe it was buried in the unmarked grave, next to Arch Stanton?
And none of the farmers ever spotted any of them gleaming in the sun? Granted $1 gold pieces are pretty small, but there were a lot of them, and farmers in Ohio used to spot arrowheads and artifacts while plowing and planting their fields.
I ran into someone the other day who mentioned a $5 Dahlonega that turned up in a treasure hunt recently, curious if there was a complete list of the hoard.
Odd that I can't find any "before" pictures with 160yr dirt toning on those gemmy 20's.
Well, odd to me.
Pretty amazing story !
That's a real good guess. No one back then was rich enough to amass all those coins.
Pete
Maybe it's the gold from the Corydon IN raid.
WOW !!!
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Perhaps it was one of these
Most People Don’t Know These 11 Treasures Are Hiding In Kentucky
Back in Kentucky’s days of old, many people either did not trust the banks, or did not have access to one. In cases such as this, wise Kentuckians would often bury their treasure hordes in spots they deemed safe. In most cases an old tree or some landmark would signal the spot, but many passed on before digging up their hidden treasures. A few ole’ timers thought to leave a note for their wives, but in some cases, their riches remain unclaimed, and well hidden.
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The Cole brothers raised a fine tobacco crop late during the Civil War. It was so fine they made a whopping $5,000 in gold coins for their hard work. Instead of trusting a bank, they hid the coins in their hearth, about 20 miles out of Paducah. Unfortunately, a robber broke in soon thereafter, killing the brothers and taking the gold. It was buried near the home, but the robbers fled. He left the money, took a new name and moved to Kentucky. The man died around the 1900s, but shared the location with a friend. The Cole house had been dismantled, and despite the "friend’s" best efforts, he never found the gold.
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ames Langstaff passed on in 1872, but he left a note informing his wife there was $20,000 in gold coins buried on their land near a cottonwood tree. It has been determined the coins were buried either on South Third Street or Broadway in Paducah.
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In addition to the Klondike gold rush in the late 1890s, there was also another one in the Fairbanks area several years later, which put the place on the map. If this guy was in his 80s, he may have been one of the lucky prospectors who actually found something.
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Did it say they didn’t use a metal detector? It may have, I just didn’t see that part.
Double checking my yard!
They were sold to Modern Coin Mart / GovMint, who sold them to collectors. Not sure if they bought all of the coins, but they were selling many of them and, yes, they all sold out. I was able to get an 1862 Indian $1 Type III that shows a little evidence of recovery from the ground (that's desirable to me), but perfect coins go for many thousand$
The coins were initially stored in a money sack, as there was evidence of the sack in the recovery. As expected, most of the cloth bag disintegrated from being buried. Some of the coins show damage from field plowing over the years, but most of the coins are in great shape (once the dirt was cleaned off).
Conjecture is that these coins may have been intended to pay soldiers (this was during the Civil War), or someone just stashed them away because Kentucky was a state sandwiched between the North and South and was nervous. Because of this, Kentucky declared its neutrality in the war, but I'm not sure how much that helped. Interesting history here.
What I found interesting about the discovery is that they found 3 1862 Double Dies among the hoard. The 1862 is one of the more common dates, with thousands graded by PCGS and NGC, but the DDO has a pop of only 38 between the 2 services. Not sure how many 1862's there were, but 3 of them being DDO's is a high percentage.
Civil War soldiers on both sides were paid with paper money not gold.
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I bet they running them thru the conservation dept first b4 mktg them.
Just goes to show still stuff out there.