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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]
This is a list of hoards (buried treasure caches) that were unearthed in North America. "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 stories of the pirates who once sailed southern Delaware’s coastal waters live on in the minds of area residents.
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]
Gold coins buried in a small pot and dated to the fifth century B.C. were discovered in modern-day Turkey. Archaeologists believe that the coins—based on their location underneath a Helensitic ...
The excavation of an ancient Greek city in Turkey uncovered a stash of gold coins from about 2,500 years ago. ... of a fifth century BC courtyard house, ... then found the hoard of coins buried ...
A British man who found a massive cache of ancient Roman gold and silver coins while hunting with a metal detector has a lot more modern currency in his pocket after the treasure was auctioned off ...
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.