The Great Kentucky Hoard - Part 2 (Lexington, KY) | Kentucky Life | KET
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- For the first time ever, hear insights from the farmer who found more than $3 million in gold coins in a Kentucky farm field. Learn about the moment he stumbled across what’s now known as the Great Kentucky Hoard, how his family has been searching for items from the past for generations, and his advice to treasure hunters looking to stumble across the next great discovery.
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One year ago this Sunday I walked out to a ridgetop which had burned in a forest fire the previous autumn. I chose this spot to detect do to the abundance of mining activity in the 1860s. I had my detector on and my arm was swinging but my eyeballs saw it first. Sticking out of the parched earth was a 1844 $5 half eagle gold coin. A new chapter of my life began that day, And it happened to be my 45th birthday.
What a great bday gift! That's awesome!
THANK YOU! Chip and crew It was amazing and a honor to work with you on this.
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🎉 I found 6 cents yesterday in a parking lot!😂
Not bad!
Yeah I found 10
I had a childhood friend who lived next to a very old abandoned house. A tornado came through and destroyed the house so he went through the yard with a metal detector and found 600.00 face value of coins buried in mason jars in various places around the house.
i found that same house
The landowner should be able to find out who owned that land during the Civil War. The county should have records. It would help to solve the mystery of who and why the horde was never recovered. What a fascinating story though! I recently took up metal detecting as a hobby and found my first silver coin yesterday at my old elementary school that was built in 1915. It's a Standing Liberty Quarter. I can't imagine finding a horde like this but it's nice to dream about.
I have always watched where I'm walking, even as a kid. Once, while walking home from school, a classmate asked snidely why did I always look down. I said I didnt know, it was who I was. (I also looked up and around) within about a few minutes, I saw some crumpled up US currency at the edge of the sidewalk. Bent over, picked up and then unraved it. It was three $1 bills, which was a treasure for a grade school kid in the late 1960's. The other kid I was walking with and made that comment started scouring the ground and was looking down the rest of our walk home. Perfect timing that taught me a lesson. Being curious is a blessing, not a curse.
I grew up in a little town (not nearly as old as places on the east coast, granted) and me and my brother were digging a hole in my parents' back yard like kids do, and about 3 feet down with found some fountain pens, ink containers and other odds and ends. Nothing of any great value, but that was kind of exciting as kids. I've no idea why anyone would go to the trouble of burying pens and ink container three feet down.
@@Anon54387You probably found the site of an old outhouse. People used to toss their household trash into them as well.
Same always scout the ground
I'm 54 6 years ago I found 1 bill folded in fourths in the line where 2 side walk squares come together. It was a $20
I was on a vacation with family in the mountains of North Carolina about 15 years ago, i was walking on a trail, looked down and found a huge citrine crystal, bright yellow, 15 years later i have a gemstone/mineral collection worth over 60K 😅
Super story, like the 10 million dollar California find a few years back. Didn't even use a metal detector. Only thing I ever found was an Indian spear head with two white stripes on it, in six feet of water while swimming without a mask as a ten year old kid. Finding sure is exciting. Wonder how many times that field was plowed while driving over the coins????
At least 160 years worth. Lol
@@ar-sithf.austin3744 Makes you wonder how much more is out there.
Makes you wonder how many he didn't find in that same field
Thank you so much for this great story coverage. Our life is so painful but it's so nice to know a dream came true for someone...
I’m on a iv 12 hours everyday and that’s painful but life itself isn’t painful it’s a beautiful thing and yes you are right dreams can come true as long as we dare to dream .
@@kaynefryday6637may God bless both of you. I love you.
This would make a great movie. The story could be about the farmer and what might have happened to them. Then, somehow weave that past tragedy into a future story of hope and opportunity.
You got the premise, write a work of fiction based loosely on this event... I believe in you.
@@yep-sb4uf - Thanks for the vote of confidence. This story made me think of the author Clive Cussler. Almost every single one of his books starts in the past, then fast forwards to the present day. I always liked that story format. And I guess I wasn't the only one because Clive Cussler wrote many many successful novels spanning the 1970's to today. They even made a few movies based on his books.
@__-pl3jg your post made me think of the opening scene in time cop. Lol. Not on the same level, but I liked that movie back in the day.
Good thing he's staying anonymous. These days, you never know if the relatives of whoever owned that land will show up with their hands out, claiming the horde belongs to them. There's always a slimy lawyer who will try that.
The farmer could have or may have searched the deed recordings at the county recorder's office to reveal the name of the persons who owned that field during the US Civil War. Of course, we don't know who the farmer is and so we won't necessarily get his insight into the history of the land.
Oh there could be very well be a reason why. Why somebody wouldn't say who they are because of where they found. I wasn't joking when I sit here and said that I drove down a road in Kentucky and I saw a mountain in front of me you had to take a left or right hand turn and I saw something in the side of that mountain. It was a rainy night too. That would be the best time to see something shiny. Right there off the highway in Kentucky. I need to take a little trip back through there.
There's plenty out there. Remember the US outlawed owning gold for a time and many people buried their gold then also.
Yep. That was socialist F.D.R. in the 1930's. Only wedding rings and "religious jewelry" were exempt from the federal order.
THIS is what dreams are made of!! I would love ❤️ to find a cache like this, but who wouldn’t!
GREAT STORY CHIP
Not just Kentucky. Hordes like this are all over the country.
That is a lot of money back then for a simple farmer to have. Great find!
I wouldn't tell anyone that I found millions in gold coins, either.......but there would be signs.
Thank you for the update on this story. As a treasure hunter, I always dream of finding a hoard such as this!
Me too!
You know the IRS and the BIG GUY are looking for their cut of the GOLD - LOL
Biden is calling him up right now. Hunter Biden that is.
great story. (UK viewer)
I love to look for old things but now not only have I found them but one of them.
Thank you for sharing this story.
Great story! Thank you!
Considering what the hoard was found with, I suspect it was under the trash-pile. Broken pottery, junk etc. Every farm has one. It eventually was plowed under. The thing about these hoards is that they were never reclaimed. Ripe for imagination. Many more to be found
There are stories about payrolls being buried en route, due to either side robbing each other.
I find Gold every year in my farm field and it tastes real good , I call it sweet corn . And it comes back every year , it's like minting money , seed in , plant up . Ha Ha Ha
Nice to hear the story of the Great Kentucky Hoard! Keep digging and find those treasures.
Little hill country history. Thanks folks.
It’s fascinating to think who left them, and why they never came back
Great Story!
Great Story, thanks for sharing !! I live in rural Virginia and for 50+ yrs have similarly been searching fields, river beds, etc. Lots of junk found, but it's also quite a lot of Civil War finds that keep me going.
Awesome 😎 story !
Pretty amazing story 💥!!!!!
Great story!
It's likely the person who buried the coins was killed and that's why they remained buried
Nice Cheers thanks for sharing
Perhaps they were buried to avoid the mandatory confiscation in the 30’s
There probably would have been newer coins in among the coins.
That's my thoughts too!
Cool story! Gold is where you find it!
I live on exactly the trail that John Hunt Morgan and his Raiders traveled here in Ohio, during his raid,now I feel compelled to search the fields around me.. lol
To say this came from a farmer's stash is completely absurd. This country has become so used to affluence and recreation, it has become completely disattached to how hard the people had to toil to scratch out a living from the land. No doubt this hoard was from a powerful entity that feared conflict and discovery. The fact these were clearly buried during the civil war leads me to believe this was a stash of the Confederacy (or, more remotely, the Union). I guess we will never really know, but farmers back then weren't the billionaire farmers of today.
A.) Most farmers today are not billionaires.
B.) Some of the plantation owners were quite wealthy, also owning other businesses.
My guess is that it was a bank robbery. No farmer in those days had that kind of money.
@s1988teve ---> What a bogus statement. Sad that you got any "Thumbs Ups". I live in a "Farm" State and know of zero farmers that are "Billionaires". Most are driving 20 or 30 year-old Pick-up trucks, and work "odd jobs" during the winter just to put food on their tables. Many have to take out loans just to buy more seeds to plant or buy a new tractor.
You are what is "absurd". The coins were found on a farm. Not in a safe deposit box at a Bank or in a trunk in an attic.
@@gusloader123 Even if they were driving new pick ups, if anyone deserves it, it's the men who work 12 hours a day in all weather to feed the country.
Was it a farm back when?
An old man in my neighborhood owned 2 houses. He sold one but took the funds in cash and never deposited it. After he died, people tore the house and yard apart looking for the stash but it has never been found. I'm sure that someone in the distant future will stumble on it. Most of the houses in that area were owned by Polish immigrants who, understandably had a deep distrust for authority and many things, including old guns have been found- plastered into the walls.
Very cool, thanks again and what a great character to have it happen to, would make a great civil war novel 👏🇨🇦
I'm Jefferson Davis grand daughter.. this video just started playing all by itself.. after listening I decided to check when it was posted.. my guess was about a year ago.. I was shocked to see it was posted one day ago.. I've been studying the civil war era... Nice find.. CONGRATULATIONS!!! BUT it wasn't just the confederates raiding it was also the north.. THAT part of the video didn't sit right with me.. just saying!!. Awesome!!
Agree with you on that! Cool heritage Patricia 😊 I’ve been to where they held your grandfather at Fort Monroe
@@Ed-sq7jm7 I would love to go there... But I'm just a poor girl living in Montana... My daughter is the spitting image of Varina Howell Davis... It's amazing..there is so much to my story it's incredible.. thank you for commenting.. especially in the positive fashion.. long live the U.S.A.
@@patriciadavis8535 I bet there is! SE Virginia is full of Civil War history. I find it fascinating. You should write a memoir. A lot of history unfortunately is told by the victors.
@patriciadavis8535 ---> Agree with you about the bias against the Confederates, especially by the female in the video. The gold and silver coins were probably hidden from the Yankee Bluecoats who at least half of which were draftees and lowlifes and rapists and thieves with no discipline.
Upstate New York kid here. Surrounded by history and fortunate enough to be surrounded by woods and nature atop of a hill on my own 5 acres. Bought the place the same day my wife and I were married in December of 2020 and have put off metal detecting it ever since but I feel the time has come. It’s going to be littered with brass and lead from the last hundred years or more from deer hunting. But beyond that, only God knows. These hills are rich with Revolutionary War history, and hide tanneries. Hemlocks are everywhere. Key ingredient in tanning.
Of course people from the beginning of time have hoarded valuables and money and hid or buried them. Then they either got old and forgot or were unable to retrieve them and eventually passed away and the location was lost to the ages. I'm sure there are hundreds, if not more of these types of finds, lurking in places all over the U.S.
Damn, I wish I could be so lucky!
I'm staying with a robbers stash. People in the 1860's didn't have 800 gold coins "sitting around" the House.
Wonder if the landowner is afraid to plow his fields now? Wow! What a great story!
You didn't mention it but I sure hope he went over his fields with a good metal detector after his find.
Thanks. Still looking for Peter Alumbaugh burried in Lincoln county.
John Hunt Morgan popped into my mind too.
Well based on:
the max yr of coins
the Battle of Richmond, the Battle of Perryville, and the Middlecreek battle, which was the decisive battle for Eastern Kentucky in 1862
the short list of units that were in the state
and Camp Nelson
Some locals can probably get a sense of where these were found.
I read that book.
Fascinating. I could binge-watch these programmes.
A question:
If the first find was some 30 feet from the main hoard, how far was the furthest find dispersed?
When the experts arrived how big an area did they comb with their detectors and how deep did they dig until they knew that they had recovered everything?
Not only in Kentucky but in other states aswell Gold could be hiding in fields.
Traces of Morgan's Raiders. Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky.
Indiana
Au: Gold is the most stable element as it has eight electrons, which makes it stable chemically speaking. - Chemistry 101, Periodic Table of Elements.
I collect old beer cans. Cone tops. Let me know if you find those.
This is beyond special here in the US because we have so little history compared to the UK and Europe. Someone in the UK is finding something incredible about once a year simply because they've got 10 times more human history than we do. And pottery shards just don't cut it.
How do we know he found these coins on his own property?
Any thoughts where this hoard would have come from? This is a lot of $ for the time.
Shows you how much paper/digital dollars been inflated since 1 oz gold was 20$. Nothing like springing a crop of gold coins.
It was a bank robbery or possibly the banker who hid that stash from marauders. It wasn't an individual. Whoever it was, they didn't make it back to recover the money. It is a great historical discovery for Kentucky and the country. Thanks for sharing.
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I think there must be a sad back story to this find . . . I mean in regard to the one who secreted it. What could have prevented the retrieval?
I think it was Tuco’s 1/2…
Awwwaaawwwaaaahhh hmm hmm hmmm
Wonder what happened to whoever buried it and never went back for it , i'm from the UK and coin hoards from even the Roman occupation which lasted 350yrs from the year 43ad to 410ad , it's conflict that make folks bury their treasure in the hope of coming back for it later, human nature hasn't changed .
I found two pennies lying on the ground just right out in the open in a Burger King parking lot the other day.
I thought of a video I had seen, about what was the least amount of money different people at different wealth levels would bend over to pick up. LIke, if you're a multimillionaire, you wouldn't bother with picking up a $100 dollar bill, because every second you're making $100 just from interest alone. So I snatched those two pennies up.
If the discriminator feature if a metal detectector could be improved so that it could accuratelt detect gold and silver without false positives leading to alot of junk like iron being avoided, alot more treasure could be found, alot more quickly. Lucky the farmers plow dud not damage this find.
The Great Kentucky Hoard is closely related to The Great Kentucky Meat Shower actually!!!.....
safer in the ground than in the bank. hmm. still true?
The only way I would have told anyone is if I was up against it and had to sell some to survive. Nobody, not family or friends. I would have made my own hiding spot And only me and my cat would know where it was
What about union raiders
What he was thinking is he’s not putting any seed in the ground anymore
I was driving through Kentucky one night and I saw a hill in front of me on a road. And I saw something sparkling like it was gold. I've been down that road since and there's only one place where it could be. Because there's only one place where I actually saw the side of the mountain. Pretty hard to stop and do whatever you want driving an 18-wheeler. But there was another time I was driving through Kentucky when God told me we could lose the holy Spirit so I hope you people are prepared for the future.
Makes me think of the ending of the Good, The Bad, and the Ugly.
Really makes you wonder about the person or persons that buried the coins. Who were they? Why did they bury the coins? Why did they choose that location? Why didn't they come back for them? What was going through their minds in their very last moment, such as, did they have time to recognize that they were never going to be able to get back to the stashed coins, and, did they wonder about who might one day find the coins?
Just such a cool story. It really is the stuff dreams are made of!
Farmers in those times who had that much gold would not have been farming any longer.
Was wondering what the total face value of the stash is.This might help trying to figure out why it was buried for example if it’s 1 K would that be 2 years worth of earnings for a farmer in that time period ? Great story
Watch the first part of this segment - has all those details in it.
Wondering if he was allowed to keep it, or has the state confiscated some of it?
His land, his money.He'll be taxed when he sells it most likely.
No clues led to the treasure, just chance.
How much did the government take?
Thanks, now I have to clean this puddle of drool while my metal detector keeps staring at me as if it's saying....c-mon dad, let's go detecting.
Luck is the product of design.
"Luck is what happens when preparedness meets opportunity" --ascribed to the Roman philosopher Seneca.
@@nickkenney9357 as I said luck is the product of design
So, I'm wondering if the reason he didn't want anyone know about was because he doesn't own the land
I wonder how much our honest IRS confiscated.. 30%? 70%?
I would NOT have told a soul. Actually i would have said i experienced a boating accident 😂
#geoguesser #rainbolt
I thought it would be worth more
Appreciate Positive Energy shares theough a Media Source. It is goodness
Sounds like the golden circle stash from those confederate raiders!
Does the name: John Hunt Morgan raiders ring any Bells?? 😊🎉
Had to barry it quickly and then was killed
Well I Do Know..where the $
Wasn't....My Field
A&E crafted an entire show about a former wwe wrestler going around the South, detecting and digging relics, but it was all faked.
A&E is mostly fake reality shows
"That is when my head began to spin and knew I needed help."
"We're from the government and we're here to help."
I bet now he will go buy a metal detector and be all over that property to see if he finds anything else.
Good video, except for the mechanical voice.
Hahaha! I read Kentucky Education…..and stopped reading. It’s a joke right?!😅
I would remain silent too. Nothing good would come from the publicity.
Nobody ever comes to the conclusion that $3m in todays paper and digital currency bears no relation to the historic nominal value of intrinsic precious meta money.
Considering the US has exceptional privilege providing the world with its fiat dollar, thats flooding into the global economy at a rate of one trillion dollars every 100 days, it doesnt surprise me that all countries play catch-up at the future expence of those that are too young to be consulted.
*bears (not "bares")
@@robbernath I'm abit dyslexic on that one, 'bares' as in opening up, exposing ones self,
'Bears' as in furry, not so cuddly omnivores, skin or hide made into guardsmen's bearskin hats.
Neither seem quite right for me in the context you comment on.
For me, a near miss, is a trans into a 'female' OR an actual collision.
If you have a 'near miss' it literally indicates you didn't miss and contact occurred.
Why should a solution be an answer to a problem when it could be a suspension in a liquid solution?
Why isn't being hanged a suspended sentence?
In short, I'm still not convinced, 'bears' is right within the context of your comment.
@@harryzero1566 your lengthy response aside, "bears" is the correct word choice here. An example would be "it bears repeating" for the proper context. "Bears" also means to possess, own, etc. Just as notes of currency are "bearer" documents.
@@robbernath treasury and currency notes, the bearer etc. Why didn't I think of that? Thank you.
@@harryzero1566 you're welcome 👍
I just hope the farmer was smart enough to not turn everything in. I dont think museums give you any money for turning in historical items.
+++++ what kind of farmer during the civil war had that much money? That is way too much for an average or even a fairly well off farmer. Could be that a few farms, families decided to band together to hide their savings. They could have been all related and trusted each other.
Someone unconnected might have buried it without the landowner even knowing.
If you hide a spare house key under a flowerpot you might put it under your neighbour's pot rather than under your own where a thief would look first.
@@user-zo7mr3op8i That's taking a huge legal risk stashing your money on someone else's property. Even back then. They would have legal right to it and then try and prove it isn't theirs.
I will NEVER show my finds, much less SELL them!! What a fool, he should have kept every one!!