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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]
An auctioneer found the painting stored in an attic during a visit to a private estate in Camden, ... This Family Found 18th-Century Gold Coins—Worth $300,000—Under Their Kitchen Floorboards.
Archaeologists identified the collection of 15 coins as “the first hoard of Iron Age gold coins to have been discovered in Wales,” the release said. The “rare” coins were minted between 60 ...
The hoard was discovered during renovations of an 18th century property beneath the kitchen floor. [2] The 266 gold coins were found packed within a stoneware vessel tax-stamped to the reign of Queen Anne (1702-1714). The vessel was nearly complete, manganese-mottled salt-glazed and decorated with ridged geometric markings.
Also found among the Roman coins were 72 gold aurei, dated from 18 B.C. to 47 A.D. Those coins show no signs of wear and likely came from a pile of freshly minted coins, according to the Cultural ...
an object within head (1), (2), (3) or (4) above found at the same time or earlier; or an object found earlier which would be within head (1), (2) or (3) above if it had been found at the same time. Treasure does not include unworked natural objects, or minerals extracted from a natural deposit, or objects that have been designated not to be ...