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.
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.
I was the same and in the 60s but my find was a $20 dollar bill. My sister immediately - after making fun of me for looking down - demanded half of the money. My mother kept it for me but I don’t remember getting it back!
When I was in my first grad school, my college asked if if I would pick up a penny from the ground. “No!” “A quarter Or maybe a dime”. So they all laughed at me for only willing to pick up a dime.
THANK YOU! Chip and crew It was amazing and a honor to work with you on this. The Dirt Nerds of Kentucky are also metal detector dealers, we represent all brands of metal detecting and prospecting equipment.
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’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 .
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.
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.
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????
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.
@@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.
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 😅
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.
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!!
@@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.
And the kind of people who might have, probably had it invested in businesses or things like that. Keeping what profits they had working for them just as those same people do today. But I do understand the world back then worked much more directly on cash, but a year's salary for 9 soldiers in mostly gold coins, many seemingly just minted coins? I'm so skeptical it was just a random farmer or even a well to do one. Farming is a capital intense operation so unless this happened just after harvest, I seriously doubt it was related to farming.
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 hope the farmer researches the story of the hoard. It's so interesting that the coins span only a 10 yr period. Perhaps it was a farmer who sold some land in the early days of the Civil War & buried the profits. Or maybe the family had been making steady income from a new crop for a few years, & wanted to keep it safe. Or maybe it was a young man's life savings, pulled out of the bank & secretly buried one night to keep it safe on his grandfather's farm. The young man planned to buy his own farm, maybe, when he got back from the War...
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
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. 👍👏🇺🇲
We live in w ky and years ago my father n law was farming and seen something shiny. It was a 1854-o quarter. He didn’t look for anymore. Makes me wonder.
A lone old man had died in his desert home all along no relatives known, A real estate lady was clearing out thew home after the mans body had been removed she made a call to the county clerk that had hired her and said you better come out here , there is a lot of money in here, when he arrived she show him an old ringer washer that was storing $20 dollar gold pieces for the 1800s , searching more they found a box under the old shack with more gold coins. also a box in the rafters with even more, they found over three million dollars in gold, a distant cousin was located in Ca. that received some of the treasure
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.
I know this happened in Crab Orchard where the first race track ran backwards was. That farmer said people were in his field at night with flashlights and lanterns that was in the eightys
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.
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.
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
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.
This is why i always tell my kids, watch the ground as you walk around. You never know what youll find. I think i might have actually had a heart attack if i had found this 😂
the finder himself said the day he found them he walked to an area where he'd seen pottery and other artifacts, so I disagree with the theories about them being purposely buried in a random spot.. with the mention of all the other pieces it sounds like an old home site or campground as opposed to some random place without other signs of activity
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.
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.
@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.
We don't know anything other than what people have relayed that the owner of the coins said, other than the letter answering questions that allegedly came from the coins' seller.
I think they buried the coins next to a fence post. Then left the area came back after the war was over and saw the fence line was removed for whatever reason and had no landmarks to go by. My family has a story like that. Some ancestors put money in a cast iron cooking pot and buried it by a fence line by a creek. Nobody knows which creek and which fence line or where on the fence line. It's something to talk about at family reunions.
I just see no way this was some regular random landowner/farmer who had 8 1863 double eagles and an overall total value of coins worth 9 years wages for a soldier to bury in the ground. This would likely have been one of the wealthiest people around, and that part does potentially fit the unease that is being described here. I think something more special than that must have led to this. Whether it was the score from a bank robbery, or military payroll, or that John Henry Morgan Raider story. Something like that.
There are at least two hugè Civil War lost gold hoards that are known of where the wealthy landowner buried his gold and died before he was able to retrieve it. Their relatives didn't know the exact location.
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.
I can't imagine myself at any wealth level not picking up bills of any denomination. Maybe I wouldn't be digging under coolers at 7/11 for change like I did when I was a kid, but I'd still pick it up even if it didn't change my life. It's still fun to find free money.
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 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!
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.
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!
Fantastic!!!!
Very cool! A reminder to all of us to "keep the faith".
California gold country.
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 the same and in the 60s but my find was a $20 dollar bill. My sister immediately - after making fun of me for looking down - demanded half of the money. My mother kept it for me but I don’t remember getting it back!
🎉 I found 6 cents yesterday in a parking lot!😂
Not bad!
Yeah I found 10
When I was in my first grad school, my college asked if if I would pick up a penny from the ground. “No!” “A quarter Or maybe a dime”.
So they all laughed at me for only willing to pick up a dime.
Legend
THANK YOU! Chip and crew It was amazing and a honor to work with you on this.
The Dirt Nerds of Kentucky are also metal detector dealers, we represent all brands of metal detecting and prospecting equipment.
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
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 .
@@kaynef6637may God bless both of you. I love you.
That is a lot of money back then for a simple farmer to have. Great find!
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'm sure he knows. Could be in his family and might have to deal with all the long lost "relatives" who come crying
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.
Many lawyers are only as slimy as the clients who hire them to be that way.
This was my thought too--unscrupulous people. A lawsuit just to get an out-of-court settlement to make the lawsuit go away.
I remember finding a hoard of ancient gold artifacts back in 1254 B.C.E. this allowed me enough financial security until today. Thank you for sharing.
Man you're old!😂
Thank you for the update on this story. As a treasure hunter, I always dream of finding a hoard such as this!
Me too!
Can you imagine?? I'm so happy for the guy and that the coins are out in the wild for people to enjoy.
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
@@HandlingItAll Makes you wonder how much more is out there.
Makes you wonder how many he didn't find in that same field
THIS is what dreams are made of!! I would love ❤️ to find a cache like this, but who wouldn’t!
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.
great story. (UK viewer)
GREAT STORY CHIP
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 😅
Nice to hear the story of the Great Kentucky Hoard! Keep digging and find those treasures.
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.
Great Story!
I love to look for old things but now not only have I found them but one of them.
Cool story! Gold is where you find it!
Pretty amazing story 💥!!!!!
Great story!
Awesome 😎 story !
Great story! Thank you!
Little hill country history. Thanks folks.
Nice Cheers thanks for sharing
So happy for him! God smiled on him. I hope the money will help someone.
Thank you for sharing this story.
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.
I'm staying with a robbers stash. People in the 1860's didn't have 800 gold coins "sitting around" the House.
And the kind of people who might have, probably had it invested in businesses or things like that. Keeping what profits they had working for them just as those same people do today. But I do understand the world back then worked much more directly on cash, but a year's salary for 9 soldiers in mostly gold coins, many seemingly just minted coins? I'm so skeptical it was just a random farmer or even a well to do one. Farming is a capital intense operation so unless this happened just after harvest, I seriously doubt it was related to farming.
i agree
Very cool, thanks again and what a great character to have it happen to, would make a great civil war novel 👏🇨🇦
Never stop lots to be found
Would have been interesting to know whether the farmer bought a metal detector to make sure he had found all the coins.
Not just Kentucky. Hordes like this are all over the country.
It’s fascinating to think who left them, and why they never came back
Thanks. Still looking for Peter Alumbaugh burried in Lincoln county.
A "professional" handling those coins with bare hands.... definetly an awesome idea
How did they stay buried for so long if the fields were being plowed? Fascinating!
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.
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 hope the farmer researches the story of the hoard.
It's so interesting that the coins span only a 10 yr period. Perhaps it was a farmer who sold some land in the early days of the Civil War & buried the profits. Or maybe the family had been making steady income from a new crop for a few years, & wanted to keep it safe.
Or maybe it was a young man's life savings, pulled out of the bank & secretly buried one night to keep it safe on his grandfather's farm. The young man planned to buy his own farm, maybe, when he got back from the War...
A lot of wild guesses. Perhaps the payroll for an Army that was passing thru.
Wonder if the landowner is afraid to plow his fields now? Wow! What a great story!
I'd be setting those plows to max depth and running 24/7!
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
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.
👍👏🇺🇲
I wouldn't tell anyone that I found millions in gold coins, either.......but there would be signs.
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.
They already have it, windfall tax.
Hunter will come personally to pick it up
We live in w ky and years ago my father n law was farming and seen something shiny. It was a 1854-o quarter. He didn’t look for anymore. Makes me wonder.
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!
A lone old man had died in his desert home all along no relatives known, A real estate lady was clearing out thew home after the mans body had been removed she made a call to the county clerk that had hired her and said you better come out here , there is a lot of money in here, when he arrived she show him an old ringer washer that was storing $20 dollar gold pieces for the 1800s , searching more they found a box under the old shack with more gold coins. also a box in the rafters with even more, they found over three million dollars in gold, a distant cousin was located in Ca. that received some of the treasure
You didn't mention it but I sure hope he went over his fields with a good metal detector after his find.
John Hunt Morgan popped into my mind too.
Damn, I wish I could be so lucky!
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.
It's likely the person who buried the coins was killed and that's why they remained buried
I know this happened in Crab Orchard where the first race track ran backwards was. That farmer said people were in his field at night with flashlights and lanterns that was in the eightys
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.
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.
More will be found. Lots of people sweeping properties with these detectors.
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
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.
This is why i always tell my kids, watch the ground as you walk around. You never know what youll find.
I think i might have actually had a heart attack if i had found this 😂
the finder himself said the day he found them he walked to an area where he'd seen pottery and other artifacts, so I disagree with the theories about them being purposely buried in a random spot.. with the mention of all the other pieces it sounds like an old home site or campground as opposed to some random place without other signs of activity
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.
Any thoughts where this hoard would have come from? This is a lot of $ for the time.
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?
I read that book.
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?
How do we know he found these coins on his own property?
We don't know anything other than what people have relayed that the owner of the coins said, other than the letter answering questions that allegedly came from the coins' seller.
I think they buried the coins next to a fence post. Then left the area came back after the war was over and saw the fence line was removed for whatever reason and had no landmarks to go by. My family has a story like that. Some ancestors put money in a cast iron cooking pot and buried it by a fence line by a creek. Nobody knows which creek and which fence line or where on the fence line. It's something to talk about at family reunions.
I just see no way this was some regular random landowner/farmer who had 8 1863 double eagles and an overall total value of coins worth 9 years wages for a soldier to bury in the ground. This would likely have been one of the wealthiest people around, and that part does potentially fit the unease that is being described here. I think something more special than that must have led to this. Whether it was the score from a bank robbery, or military payroll, or that John Henry Morgan Raider story. Something like that.
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.
It's already sold, so the original owner doesn't have to worry about that. But the IRS is a different story.
I collect old beer cans. Cone tops. Let me know if you find those.
If this was found near Paint Lick, Kirksville or Happy Landing I and some others could have a story for you!
There are at least two hugè Civil War lost gold hoards that are known of where the wealthy landowner buried his gold and died before he was able to retrieve it. Their relatives didn't know the exact location.
I found a1850gold peace when I was 20
safer in the ground than in the bank. hmm. still true?
Shows you how much paper/digital dollars been inflated since 1 oz gold was 20$. Nothing like springing a crop of gold coins.
Farmers in those times who had that much gold would not have been farming any longer.
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Not only in Kentucky but in other states aswell Gold could be hiding in fields.
Au: Gold is the most stable element as it has eight electrons, which makes it stable chemically speaking. - Chemistry 101, Periodic Table of Elements.
What he was thinking is he’s not putting any seed in the ground anymore
How much did the government take?
About 50% probably.
People did get suspicious when farmer joe bob bought that leer jet and mansion
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.
I can't imagine myself at any wealth level not picking up bills of any denomination. Maybe I wouldn't be digging under coolers at 7/11 for change like I did when I was a kid, but I'd still pick it up even if it didn't change my life. It's still fun to find free money.
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 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.
I think it was Tuco’s 1/2…
Awwwaaawwwaaaahhh hmm hmm hmmm
Traces of Morgan's Raiders. Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky.
Indiana
The Great Kentucky Hoard is closely related to The Great Kentucky Meat Shower actually!!!.....
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 😂
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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.
my guess is he found them near a battlefield and doesn't want anyone to know he didn't own the land
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!
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.
I'm not sure a farmer would have had that much money
He didn't have it; he found it.