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The Great Kentucky Hoard is a hoard of more than 700 gold coins unearthed in an undisclosed part of Kentucky, United States, in the 2020s by a man on his own land. The finder of the hoard has remained anonymous. There were a total of more than 800 Civil War–era coins, of which over 700 were gold coins.
The first set of gold shipments to the depository occurred during the first half of 1937. A second set was completed in 1941. These shipments, overseen by the United States Post Office Department , totaled roughly 417 million troy ounces (12,960 metric tons), almost two-thirds of the total gold reserves of the United States.
Gold was discovered at the South Pass-Atlantic City-Sweetwater district in present Fremont County in 1842. The placers were worked intermittently until 1867, when the first important gold vein was discovered, and prospectors and miners rushed to the area.. The towns of South Pass City, Atlantic City, and Miner's Delight catered to the miners ...
Imagine stumbling across such a fortune in your backyard.
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Gold-quartz veins are found in the schists. [1]: 20, 27, 48 1839-C $5 Gold Coin. The Carolina gold rush, the first gold rush in the United States, followed the discovery of a large gold nugget in North Carolina in 1799, [2] by a 12-year-old boy named Conrad Reed.
Frederick Coleman was born in Kentucky in 1829 and was probably a former slave. The 1880 U.S. Census stated that he was a "Mu[latto]." Farming in the country in 1863, he married an Indian woman, took up land west of Wynola, and in January 1870 discovered placer gold in a stream named for him, Coleman Creek ... beginning the Julian gold rush.
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