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The face value of the coins totaled $27,980, but was assessed to be worth $10 million. The hoard contains $27,460 in twenty-dollar coins, $500 in ten-dollar coins, and $20 in five-dollar coins, all dating from 1847 to 1894. The collection is the largest known discovery of buried gold coins that has ever been recovered in the United States. [1]
"Unearthed" unusually means they were found buried in the ground but some are hidden by other means. Baltimore gold hoard [1] Bank of New York Hoard [2] Castine Hoard [3] Dawson Film Find [4] Great Kentucky Hoard [5] Saddle Ridge Hoard [6]
The person who found the hoard requested anonymity and sources say that he is a man. Many of the coins were found in the ground with pieces of a cloth bag and one of the coins was damaged from farm equipment. [1] [2] There were a total of 800 Civil War–era coins in the hoard and 700 of them were gold coins. [3]
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A hoard of Roman coins worth over $125,000 was found during a construction project in central England. The stash of gold and silver coins date back to the reign of Rome's Emperor Nero, according ...
So what kind of valuable coins have people found in their everyday lives? ... 1913 Gold Indian $10 Coin: $2,250. 1878 CC Morgan Dollar Coin: $900. Mexico Spanish Colony 1733 8 Reales: ...
An 1856-O double eagle, similar to the one depicted here, was the most expensive coin in the hoard, selling at auction for $105 (equivalent to $2,391 in 2023). In 1934, a hoard of gold coins was discovered by two teenage boys (Theodore Jones, 16, and Henry Grob, 15) in Baltimore, Maryland.
On History Channel's hit show "Pawn Stars," a man came in to sell a 1907 Saint-Gaudens double eagle $20 gold coin. The coins are extremely rare, and some of them have sold for more than $1 million ...