Insane amount of gold coins found!

[Mark kus]

Man uncovers more than 700 gold coins on his cornfield: 'Most insane thing ever'

'Time capsule of Civil War-era coinage' will likely fetch hundreds of thousands of dollars for its finder

nationalpost.com

 

[Ohio pull tabs]

If I found that I would park this piece of heavy equipment and tell the guys see ya

 

[Picketwire]

Most were $1 gold coins. Officers were paid in gold, enlisted men in silver. The archaeologists are whining, "Now no one will know how it got there." I would say either hidden during the Uncivil War or when Franklin Delano "bought" all of the US citizens' gold.

 

[Monkeys Uncle]

Most were $1 gold coins. Officers were paid in gold, enlisted men in silver. The archaeologists are whining, "Now no one will know how it got there." I would say either hidden during the Uncivil War or when Franklin Delano "bought" all of the US citizens' gold.

My guess...FDR era. But what I can never figure out...is WHY no one ever came back for it?????????????

 

[david bull]

The man of the house handled the finances including hiding the money.Seldom did they share this information with their family members.If they died in an accident the family would have no idea where the money was or if it even existed.There is also the possibility that it was plunder(very common) and the aggressor met with fate and never returned.

 

[PDH]

Good googly moogly! Now that's an amazing discovery. Just goes to show that theres plenty of good stuff still out there.

 

[jim tn]

Be interesting to know why it was buried there if Civil War time period? Or, from that time frame forward, did someone wealthy own the farm? Quite a few posts I've seen regarding this hoard recovery several have mentioned they would have not said anything. Personally, I think the finder handled the recovery correctly. A number of those gold coins are worth six figures and there is no way to keep sales there of quiet. HH jim tn

 

[Ronstar]

Only the Lucky Charms guy knows how that pot of gold got there…..

 

[coffeecan]

Seen some mounted fish on Lodge walls with a sign, "If only I had kept my mouth shut".

 

[north1]

Crazy what can be hidden with only one family member knowing the location. An untimely death renders it lost for years.

Case in point my great grandfather who passed away from appendicitis. Flash forward to when I was 8 years old and his blacksmith shop roof caved in. We were cleaning it out and my father removed the nails holding down his anvil, lifted it up and in a cavity underneath was a stack of Morgan dollars.
Then my father used a loader tractor to take building to a pile in yard to burn it the next day. I was crawling around on the remnants before it was burnt and saw two Morgan dollars still perched on a high shelf in the rubble.

Have metal detected all over the yard for the last 40 years and haven’t found any other caches but who knows. Just think though. There was a farmstead on most every quarter section throughout the United States. We still have A LOT of detecting to do. YEAH!!!!

 

[casull454]

Only thing I ever found in a corn field was corn. Oh, and a few pheasants.

 

[Geologyhound]

Kentucky was a slave state and these coins are union currency. I have seen a theory that they were hidden in advance of one of John Hunt Morgan’s raids. The owner would not want to be known as a union sympathizer or dealing with the union.

Also when you hide something you hide it near a landmark you can find. There was a lot of burning and looting going on. Even if the owner survived he might not have been able to find the location again.

Apparently there’s also a couple other stories that have surfaced due to this find regarding other civil War era stashes of coins which have never been found near Paducah and Cumberland Gap.

 

[T-DUB]

Most were $1 gold coins. Officers were paid in gold, enlisted men in silver. The archaeologists are whining, "Now no one will know how it got there." I would say either hidden during the Uncivil War or when Franklin Delano "bought" all of the US citizens' gold.

Picketwire, I had never heard of this statement before. Interesting, I am going to have to research that, just goes to show my lack of knowledge regarding some things.