Sweeeeet dreams......been 5 years now since this
AUandAG
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was found while walking the dog. May all your dreams be golden:
Registry: CC lowballs (boblindstrom), bobinvegas1989@yahoo.com
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Yes that was a good one.
Hoard the keys.
Find of a lifetime.
Insert witicism here. [ xxx ]
May I see what they look like now?
Beautiful Story
Yup, that was so "sweet" !!!
Wow that's crazy. Time sure does go by fast!!!
HAPPY COLLECTING
That's a story I keep telling to family and friends and one that I will never forget.
Isn't that the one where the guy had walked his dog down that path many times before and noticed something sticking out of the ground but never took a closer look? And then one day he nudged it with his foot and the lid came off? Something like that.
Yep... Amazing story.... Still a lot of discussion about it even now....Cheers, RickO
Moral of the story.................Get a Dog
Steve
Fantastic I can see your smile in my mind. A find is so gratifying I bet. Nice stuff
Best place to buy !
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I have a dog we paly catch with him all the time but he never found any thing like that.
Hoard the keys.
I saw them in Atlanta soon after they were discovered. It was the ANA National Money Show from Feb. 27- March 1, 2014. Huge crowd around the display taking photos. Most were already graded and looked brand new. The display also had the original cans in which the coins were found.
Who is the man behind the coins?
I gonna start walking my dog more often! Yes a find of a lifetime, no question about that.
"A dog breaks your heart only one time and that is when they pass on". Unknown
Here is mine. (Note it is as identified below, one of the more unique coins in the hoard having been sourced from the Carson City Mint, rather than the San Francisco Mint from where the majority of the coins in the Saddle Ridge Hoard had been minted.)
As to the composition of the Saddle Ridge Hoard, I made the following summary at the time which may be of interest.
Here were some of my observations on the composition of the coins in the Saddle Ridge Hoard Treasure:
Excluding the approximate 50 $10 Eagles and 4 $5 gold pieces, of the remaining 1,373 Liberty Head Double Eagles, 776 are contained in just 5 different mint date years from the San Francisco Mint.
The year with the largest representation of San Francisco minted $20 Liberty Head Double Eagles is 1889 with 422 examples. Second place is 1892 with 173. Third is 1890 with 98. Fourth is 1882 with 72. In fifth place is 1888 with 63. No other year has more than 50.
Represented years with at least 30 San Francisco minted $20 Liberty Head Double Eagles, apart from those above, are in order of quantity, 1883 with 49, 1879 with 45, 1880 with 41, 1881 with 40, 1878 with 34, 1884 with 33 and 1877 with 30.
The above listed years in #2 and #3 above, which together total the 12 most represented years in the Hoard, together contain 1,105 of the 1,373 Liberty Head Double Eagles in the Saddle Ridge Hoard Treasure. That leaves only 268 Double Eagles of all other years and mints.
As to the earliest coins in the hoard, the earliest is an 1847-O $10 Eagle in AU50, an 1849 Dahlonega $5 gold piece in VF30 and there is an 1850 $20 Liberty Head Double Eagle from the Philadelphia mint in genuine.
There is both a single $5 gold piece and a single $10 gold Eagle from the Carson City mint. (The 5 is an 1892 MS62 and the 10 an 1875 in AU55.)
There were only 12 San Francisco minted $20 Liberty Head Double Eagles for the last year (1894) of coins represented in the Hoard.
From the last two years that Carson City $20 Liberty Double Eagles were minted, there was one 1892 Carson City twenty and two 1893 Carson City Twenties in the Hoard with the other 9 Carson City Twenties in the Hoard having mint dates of 1874 (one VF20), 1877 (one AU58), 1882 (one genuine), 1883 (one MS61 and one MS63), 1884 (one AU55 and one MS61), 1890 (one MS60 and one MS63), with the 1892 being an AU58 and the 1893 including one genuine and one AU58+.)
OK, so what do these deposits by date tell us about whoever buried the coins? Assuming the coins represent earnings or wealth accumulation for the years of mintage then we can say that 1889 was the best year with more than twice the income/wealth accumulation of 1892 and more than four times what was accumulated in 1890 and and 1882. Equally interesting is the absence of significant accumulation in the intervening year of 1891 which could suggest that the 1892 "deposit" actually represented two years of wealth accumulation. Likewise for 1889 with 1888 being so weakly represented. We do know that at least for the gold coming out of the Comstock Lode region near Virginia City the gold itself was close to being depleted by 1892 and in fact 1893, at least for gold, was the last year of the Carson City Mint's operation due to lack of product. That historical fact can be correlated to the lack of any significant quantity (not more than 30 San Francisco minted double eagles) being deposited after the year of 1892 with its 178 Double Eagles even though coins for a few additional years are represented in the Saddle Ridge Hoard Treasure.
(Again, as noted above there was one 1892 Carson City twenty and two 1893 Carson City Twenties in the Hoard with the other 9 Carson City Twenties in the Hoard having mint dates of 1874 (one VF20), 1877 (one AU58), 1882 (one genuine), 1883 (one MS61 and one MS63), 1884 (one AU55 and one MS61), 1890 (one MS60 and one MS63), with the 1892 being an AU58 and the 1893 including one genuine and one AU58+.)
Thank you @northcoin for the summary...greatly appreciate it
i remember that story well and its still good today
We walk all the time. all I find is Pooh