The Great Kentucky Hoard - Part 1 (Lexington, KY) | Kentucky Life | KET

How did more than $3 million in Civil War era gold coins end up in a farm field, somewhere in Kentucky? Everyone from the Washington Post to USA Today to major TV news networks covered this story last summer when it first broke, but in this segment you’ll hear for the first time from the Lexington coin dealer who brokered the sale of the coins when he was first approached by the farmer who literally stumbled upon them. You’ll also hear from a UK professor about why she thinks the coins were buried in the first place, and from some modern-day treasure hunters here in Kentucky.
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  • @JamesComstockCages
    @JamesComstockCagesАй бұрын

    Smart guy, great story. When you find something your right hand doesn't even tell your left hand, you tell no one. When you do decide to share your find you tell one reputable person and show them one of what you found while disclosing nothing more than a single coin as he did. So many people feel the need to call an "authority," "higher power," which invariably ends up poorly for the finder. The "authority" manufactures some sort of reason that your find is now somehow theirs, i.e. they get the gold mine and you get the shaft. Very nice story to hear, handled perfectly.

  • @kathymyers7279

    @kathymyers7279

    Ай бұрын

    Spot on!

  • @toomanyhobbies2011

    @toomanyhobbies2011

    Ай бұрын

    Never trust a person that says "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help", at least not when money is involved.

  • @thelonecabbage7834

    @thelonecabbage7834

    Ай бұрын

    I'm curious though what makes you think that anyone person deserves that? What if that were something stolen from another family in the past?

  • @JamesComstockCages

    @JamesComstockCages

    Ай бұрын

    @@thelonecabbage7834 No records of it being stolen or missing by anyone that was mentioned. No one knows anything about it. No one came forward and said, "hey that was my great great great grandads dough. Why, you think the gov. should take it and waste it? NOT! All the gov. does is spend money that it doesn't have on stuff the people don't want and keep running the debt into infinity. Ya, the gov. needs more to waste. So happy for the guy finding it as we all wish we could have been the one who stumbled upon coins in the ground that could have remained there forever.

  • @rawcado

    @rawcado

    Ай бұрын

    ​@@thelonecabbage7834 I'm curious what makes you have the outright arrogance to think you have the right to determine what anyone "deserves"? Are you God, or do you just think you're God and should be in charge of everything outside of you that is NOT YOUR BUSINESS?? Here's a thought, What if it WASN'T stolen? What if someone earned it by shrewd investment, work or invention and put it there for safekeeping but died before having a chance to enjoy it? And here's a BIGGER question: Why is the first and ONLY thing your twisted mind thinks of is that it's stolen or was obtained by some evil deed? What does that say about YOU and the way you think and feel about people and the good fortune that happens to others without them asking for it? When I see or hear a person talk about deserving, what I see is a mean, vindictive, hateful, jealous and envious LITTLE person trying to use the concept of "deserving" to justify their hate and envy. Let's turn the table a bit and look at if from the bad side of life, what makes you think a completely innocent, or any good person that has never hurt anyone, "deserves" to be killed & murdered by an evil criminal? And so what if he's a really good person that has never done anything but good for everyone all his life, what do the good and righteous people "deserve" if, in your opinion, NO ONE "deserves" good things to ever happen to them, only nothing or only BAD things?? Life is NOT always or strictly about "deserving", a lot of life is just chance, being in the right or wrong place at the right or wrong time REGARDLESS of who or whether we have earned, "served" or have been of service to anyone, or even no one at all, since "deserve" literally means "of service". In Ecclesiastes 9:11 the bible says "I saw something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong; neither is the bread to the wise, nor the wealth to the intelligent, nor the favor to the skillful. For TIME AND CHANCE happen to all." And since he does have it whether he "deserves" it or not, what makes you think he won't use it to help other people less fortunate than him since it's all gravy to him that just "fell" on him out of the blue anyway?? Personally I'm happy for him, I hope he uses some of it to avoid people like you for the rest of his happy life.

  • @JoeR203
    @JoeR203Ай бұрын

    Me: Turns house upside down trying to find a pen. Farmer: Casually strolling in a cornfield and finds gold coins sticking out of the dirt.

  • @marybethalberstadt

    @marybethalberstadt

    Ай бұрын

    😂

  • @WastedTalent-

    @WastedTalent-

    Ай бұрын

    You should watch Time Team. In the UK, farmers find incredible ancient Roman and Iron age artifacts when plowing fields.

  • @donaldpiper9763

    @donaldpiper9763

    Ай бұрын

    How did he go through the TSA screening at the airport without setting off the alarm carrying 800 gold coins ? Low key incognito . lol

  • @Kenneth-nx4uv

    @Kenneth-nx4uv

    Ай бұрын

    BUY MOR PENS.

  • @DanielLehan
    @DanielLehanАй бұрын

    We had a boarder who lived in Charlottsville,VA. in the 1930's. He as a child was digging in a Bank about 100 feet from the house and found n old jar full of old coins dating back to the civil war.Many people also didn't trust banks after each financial crisis.This happens through the years.

  • @edwardk3

    @edwardk3

    Ай бұрын

    Eww Charlottesville. It's was probably white

  • @toomanyhobbies2011

    @toomanyhobbies2011

    Ай бұрын

    Probably a wise thing to do now too.

  • @MikeJones-mf2fw

    @MikeJones-mf2fw

    Ай бұрын

    It is. Squirrels without nuts die in the winter.

  • @clay1883

    @clay1883

    Ай бұрын

    Was the Bank an old destroyed building or had been burned down during the war?

  • @hillbilly4christ638

    @hillbilly4christ638

    Ай бұрын

    I wonder why?

  • @kidcurry3962
    @kidcurry3962Ай бұрын

    Decades ago, I worked a tobacco farm in Kentucky. After the harvest and turning of the fields I would walk them looking for arrowheads. I found some beauties, but I never found anything like that.

  • @williamsporing1500

    @williamsporing1500

    Ай бұрын

    I’m half Wyandot and I’ve never found an arrowhead lol

  • @nebriancoleman4704

    @nebriancoleman4704

    Ай бұрын

    ​@williamsporing1500 Wyandot is where I lived when I was born by park and the swimming pool in Louisville KY.... The most I found was a Scotty Pippin basketball card It's worth about a piece of silver though!

  • @seansailor7149

    @seansailor7149

    Ай бұрын

    My area of KY is LOADED with Native American artifacts. I have a friend that has walked tobacco fields for decades. His finds have been amazing

  • @soulpatchjackson3076

    @soulpatchjackson3076

    Ай бұрын

    I'm in Virginia, my great grandfather would plow a little garden every year. A arrow head would always be found. I even found a spear head in a cow path.

  • @ar-sithf.austin3744

    @ar-sithf.austin3744

    Ай бұрын

    I've found arrow heads in old light gravel driveways just sitting there. Lol. Never found one? You ain't ever looked or been anywhere

  • @unclerojelio6320
    @unclerojelio6320Ай бұрын

    Hard to believe TSA didn’t take the opportunity to confiscate the coins at the airport.

  • @bleirdo_dude

    @bleirdo_dude

    Ай бұрын

    IKR…

  • @michaelschaumburg589
    @michaelschaumburg589Ай бұрын

    In about 10 years, that $3 million will get you just one shopping cart filled at your local Walmart...

  • @tm-ln4hj

    @tm-ln4hj

    25 күн бұрын

    That's no joke

  • @krusher74

    @krusher74

    23 күн бұрын

    @@tm-ln4hj and it not a statment based in a factual evidence either.

  • @fredgarvinMP

    @fredgarvinMP

    21 күн бұрын

    ​@@krusher74 Biden supporter?

  • @Sparkysings2

    @Sparkysings2

    12 күн бұрын

    lol.

  • @tommyt8998
    @tommyt8998Ай бұрын

    3 million dollars - And Uncle Sam, the parasite will thank you for reporting your huge capital gain and giving them a huge piece of your windfall. The smart play would have been to sell them to coin shops in small increments over a few years and take cash only.

  • @nahbruv3621

    @nahbruv3621

    Ай бұрын

    sucky Sam stole over half

  • @samhavoc1066

    @samhavoc1066

    Ай бұрын

    Yes, because government, defense, social services, infrastructure, etc., doesn't cost anything, right? Capital gains tax rate on things like this is 28%, not half. Since you advocate lying and cheating to keep the money, I imagine you cheat on your taxes too. Major fail on your parents part to teach ethics and responsibility. Don't bother replying; not interested in what you have to say and I don't follow posts.

  • @samhavoc1066

    @samhavoc1066

    Ай бұрын

    @@nahbruv3621 No they didn't. Tax rate on this is no more than 28%. Quit lying.

  • @omstout

    @omstout

    Ай бұрын

    ​@@samhavoc1066TAXATION IS THEFT

  • @tymcfadden8496

    @tymcfadden8496

    Ай бұрын

    @@omstout No, taxation is how the country pays its bills. We all know righties don't like to pay their bills.

  • @davidburgoyne7489
    @davidburgoyne7489Ай бұрын

    People sometimes buried their stash near the chicken coop as the birds would make a racket if people poked around,, that is where I try to look first,,

  • @user-wi9hv2pb2q

    @user-wi9hv2pb2q

    Ай бұрын

    that's a nest egg 😂

  • @seeharvester

    @seeharvester

    Ай бұрын

    @@user-wi9hv2pb2q lol

  • @DebbieMarthey-jn2kh
    @DebbieMarthey-jn2khАй бұрын

    Being a Kentuckian, I’m so proud for this farmer finding this “hoarde”!

  • @krusher74

    @krusher74

    23 күн бұрын

    what does that even mean? it just sounds like tribality for no reason.

  • @pauljefferies2091
    @pauljefferies2091Ай бұрын

    Back in 1990 I got permission from a land owner to dig for antique bottles at an old 1870s farm house. We didn't find much but we did have a look through the old abandoned farm house. It had 9 rooms! I noticed a little slit in the wall boards that looked like it was polished. I shrugged it off and went on my way. As it happened about ten years later I ran across a guy who worked for an excavating company and was asking him if he ever uncovers bottles. He said yes and then he talked about the money that poured out of the walls of an old farm house when they were tearing it down. It was that same farmhouse. The original owner put his coins into that little opening in his bedroom wall boards and filled all the way up. It was sickening hearing him list the coins that were in there knowing I could have had them all. Yes, there were gold coins!!!! Oh well.

  • @D33Lux

    @D33Lux

    Ай бұрын

    If you were searching why would you not investigate all of it? That must have hurt.

  • @shable1436

    @shable1436

    Ай бұрын

    Don't feel bad, I had opportunity to get tens of thousands of dollars from insurance, but decided not exactly the right way, even though old ppl hit me.

  • @viggler

    @viggler

    Ай бұрын

    my house has a small slot in the medicine cabinet. A friend told me that's where guys could dispose of old razor blades and they''d disappear into the wall forever. He also said it's possible a kid might have dropped a few coins in there back in the day. So I'm looking at the possibility of a hidden treasure of a half dozen wheat pennies and tetanus!

  • @claygoodwin8108

    @claygoodwin8108

    Ай бұрын

    But if you had found them, would you give them to the landowner that gave you permission to look for bottles?

  • @kfiscal01
    @kfiscal01Ай бұрын

    I found a 1974 penny in a parking lot once.😅

  • @markbrown2296

    @markbrown2296

    Ай бұрын

    That is incredible!

  • @omstout

    @omstout

    Ай бұрын

    Now pennies are made of ZINC so any penny dropped will disappear/dissolve if left out in the weather.

  • @zzzzxxxxxz6017

    @zzzzxxxxxz6017

    Ай бұрын

    I found a 1846 penny in a shell gas station parking lot once

  • @charliejackson6192

    @charliejackson6192

    Ай бұрын

    I found a rare Chuck E Cheese token in the ashtray of a used car I bought.

  • @JP779M

    @JP779M

    Ай бұрын

    How many coins I dropped since 1954… means no more to me now than it did then… except for my 1962 Kennedy Half Dollar which I lost in a beautiful monastery Stations of the Cross or VIA DOLOROSA ( the Way of the Passion of Christ Carrying His Cross) ! The loss of the coin meant as much to me as the loss of Kennedy… did not know him, did not care for he was exactly where the Lord planned his destiny… the monastery, on the other hand, has always pulled me from my inner core, back to the quest to discover ALL about the Passion and Death of Christ. Depends on what we live is what gives value to our DISCOVERIES !

  • @JOSEPHMATTHEWHOLLAND
    @JOSEPHMATTHEWHOLLANDАй бұрын

    Just imagine how much More is out there boys from Western Kentucky 🇺🇲❤️

  • @pearljameric

    @pearljameric

    Ай бұрын

    Western KY myself!

  • @MikeJones-mf2fw

    @MikeJones-mf2fw

    Ай бұрын

    I live in a historic area and I look at the old trees that are like 200 Yeats old and just imagine e what they seen

  • @bobs5596

    @bobs5596

    Ай бұрын

    LETS GO!!

  • @Kenneth-nx4uv
    @Kenneth-nx4uvАй бұрын

    God Bless You Jeff, Miss Your Numismatist Meetings In Kenntucy. Glad They Choose You For Their Consignment Of The Hoard.

  • @tonypitsacota2513
    @tonypitsacota2513Ай бұрын

    3:42 -> "Banks aren't reliable or safe." Yea, the Song Remains the Same, Murell.

  • @tacticalmattfoley
    @tacticalmattfoleyАй бұрын

    Allegedly, this isn't the only stash of Confederate era gold in KY. There's legends of lots of gold that has never been recovered including a hoard of gold bars out there somewhere.....

  • @joshschannel4409

    @joshschannel4409

    Ай бұрын

    Yeah that gold bar hoard was found some time ago. Like around Dents Run Pa. Just look it up on here. You should be able to find that video

  • @tacticalmattfoley

    @tacticalmattfoley

    Ай бұрын

    @@joshschannel4409 That's not the hoard I'm talking about. There's a gold bar hoard supposedly in KY.

  • @pamtnman1515

    @pamtnman1515

    Ай бұрын

    We had a civil war stash in central Pennsylvania until two years ago, when FBI agents barged onto private land and dug it up and took it away. The agents got rich. Check out the news reporting on this.

  • @pamtnman1515

    @pamtnman1515

    Ай бұрын

    @@PORSCHE_COUNTRY. The FBI is utterly corrupt. The agency has turned into the mafia it was created to fight.

  • @Metalholic7of8

    @Metalholic7of8

    Ай бұрын

    Pretty sure recently, the FBI got their hands on those gold bars You can look it up

  • @mnmn926
    @mnmn926Ай бұрын

    What a great story. I came across it just by chance on KZread. Well done.

  • @bt7775
    @bt7775Ай бұрын

    Seeing that it was a farmer that found the hoard. I would have to say “hard work paid off” for him in a fantastic way.

  • @heehaw8401
    @heehaw8401Ай бұрын

    Aquachigger is a great KZread channel. He found a hoard of silver coins in a creek!

  • @russellponder940

    @russellponder940

    Ай бұрын

    I saw that. That was a good day for Chigg

  • @patrickbush9526
    @patrickbush9526Ай бұрын

    There is a farmer near me in Missouri that pulls up several gold double eagles every year he plows his fields. He is in the little Dixi area and has only told one person that I know of and he has never to this day revealed who it is but I've seen some of them first hand.

  • @01Sassoon
    @01SassoonАй бұрын

    Thank God he didn’t contact the FBI.

  • @user-oh2hs6jh5x
    @user-oh2hs6jh5xАй бұрын

    Great episode. Some farmer got mega-rich in less than a hour. As someone with a coin collection I knew about this hoard, but it was interesting to hear Jeff talk about it. On to part 2.

  • @quidproquo3933

    @quidproquo3933

    Ай бұрын

    3 mill mega rich ? Not that much these days

  • @jazzcatt

    @jazzcatt

    Ай бұрын

    @@quidproquo3933 It's a lot more than most of us have!

  • @joethegeographer
    @joethegeographerАй бұрын

    A great story well told. Thanks for sharing!

  • @kyleharris3
    @kyleharris3Ай бұрын

    Just because its dated 1850's and 1860's doesn't necessarily mean it was buried at that time.... You'll have forgotten about the gold act of the 1900's when gold was basically illegal to own. Maybe someone buried the gold to keep from getting in trouble in that 1900s.

  • @stephenjacobs8859
    @stephenjacobs8859Ай бұрын

    I know where these were found and I have a good explanation to where they came from.. a part of our history that needs recognition

  • @richardtheisen6456
    @richardtheisen6456Ай бұрын

    Outstanding in his field

  • @Saxon_TAG
    @Saxon_TAGАй бұрын

    150 years in the ground, barely below the surface, no plough damage, not scattered by farming equipment... SUS.

  • @kentneumann5209

    @kentneumann5209

    28 күн бұрын

    SUPER SUS! Also, that he recorded it.

  • @user-qr5vb3vm6e
    @user-qr5vb3vm6eАй бұрын

    Dig in the dirt,it's good for the soul. The pocketbook sometimes. Glad to see a farmer win once and awhile. 👍🇺🇸

  • @CrucesNomad1
    @CrucesNomad1Ай бұрын

    I can remember older folks in the 1980's burying money, Im sure there is more to be found.

  • @JFEnterprize

    @JFEnterprize

    Ай бұрын

    Money as gold and silver or fiat cash paper dollars?

  • @NoName-qs6ei

    @NoName-qs6ei

    Ай бұрын

    My grandma used to wrap stacks of cash in saran wrap and aluminum foil. Hide them throughout their home. She never left home.

  • @annees9738
    @annees9738Ай бұрын

    What a great story !!

  • @tspot816
    @tspot816Ай бұрын

    Still a childhood dream of mine to find treasure. Same as all grown up kids I imagine. I thought about how cool it would be to find a couple of small gold coins from a shipwreck, but I don't like diving or sharks, and if it was easy, everyone would do it. I really enjoy the story of the California couple out on a walk that found jars of gold coins. I have thought it would be fun to take a metal detector along something like the Oregon trail and see what you could find. It's a pleasant daydream when I need a distraction...

  • @IamACanadian47
    @IamACanadian47Ай бұрын

    Very informative and interesting, thank you 👏🇨🇦

  • @haroldcromack1065
    @haroldcromack1065Ай бұрын

    Absolutely incredible congratulations 🎊 🙏🇺🇸👍

  • @carlmohr9941
    @carlmohr9941Ай бұрын

    The last thing I would do is say, "I found them". There are too many stories of people finding things only for them to be confiscated and left with nothing.

  • @joepipito7431
    @joepipito7431Ай бұрын

    AMAZING STORY LUCKY FARMER GOD BLESS 🙏🙏💪💪👍👍

  • @JoyPeace-ej2uv
    @JoyPeace-ej2uvАй бұрын

    This is why quite a few southerners have metal detectors. If nowhere else you can find some fun things on the beach. People lose coins and jewelry there (that they leave on towels while they swim that get kicked into the sand and lost). Also Fairgrounds. Especially ones with fun rides that spin fast or turn you upside down lol.

  • @mikedc
    @mikedcАй бұрын

    I need a find like this

  • @1949LA-ARCH
    @1949LA-ARCHАй бұрын

    Awesome 😎 story !

  • @lambchopz817
    @lambchopz817Ай бұрын

    Great video,..🐎...awesome informative history lesson 🐎 Bluegrass state resident ❤

  • @paulnielsen8528
    @paulnielsen8528Ай бұрын

    My family were potato farmers in Denmark. Lots of hands-on field work. After a rain the sandy soil would reveal treasures. My grandfather donated some early man tools to the Danish museum where they are on display. I just remember the neighbour riding his nimbus motorcycle through the fields (I still want one of those).

  • @riverraisin1

    @riverraisin1

    Ай бұрын

    I've donated my man tool to numerous....Ahem...."museums"

  • @brentsmith981
    @brentsmith981Ай бұрын

    ...also, here in Calif 8 years ago 1400 gold coins were found in a back yard in 9 cans... They were auctioned for 10.4 million... See Saddle Ridge hoard video

  • @tedlawrence4189
    @tedlawrence4189Ай бұрын

    I dug real deep in my backyard. I found a really nice condition antique bone that a dog buried many decades ago.

  • @riverraisin1

    @riverraisin1

    Ай бұрын

    A little bit deeper and you would have found chopsticks!

  • @commonsenseisntcommon1776
    @commonsenseisntcommon1776Ай бұрын

    I feel good when I find a quarter in the couch cushions!

  • @richardernst8857
    @richardernst8857Ай бұрын

    Great story wish I could find some treasure

  • @henerygreen578
    @henerygreen578Ай бұрын

    during WW2 the British crown jewels were supposed to go to the US..... but some rightfully thought that they shouldn't leave the British Isles, so they were packed then thrown into a lake. about a half dozen people knew the location.....

  • @MartenKrueger-sx4me
    @MartenKrueger-sx4meАй бұрын

    Finding old property lines, and determining where the corners were on the propter is usually the pay dirt....

  • @hillbillyheadcam1729

    @hillbillyheadcam1729

    Ай бұрын

    Why is that? You got me super curious

  • @MartenKrueger-sx4me

    @MartenKrueger-sx4me

    Ай бұрын

    @@hillbillyheadcam1729 Well it made it easier to locate,and not forget where placed....when growing up I remember it being referred to as the stake line,...when I would search around some of these old property lines, I would often come across these little caches of coins and even jewelery...now trying to find old wood corner stakes is nearly impossible, however, you look for a marker stone usually large, and somewhat out of place, kind of a loner looking thing... On rock walls you look for again that odd stone in the corner or real close by...you will be surprised by how much you can locate, so far I have found many caches, but none that made me rich by any means...it is just interesting.... I come too think that when people traveled west after the civil war, they took what they had,.. or during WW1 valuables were stashed and many never came home ...and it was forgotten...I have found these in caches in upstate NY, Illinois, Kentucky, Virginia, Pennsylvania, OK, Arizona, California, in the Mojave desert. And one in the Texas panhandle....I have never found gold, coins, but trinkets..copper and silver coins, some ruined paper monies..

  • @pastorjerrykliner3162
    @pastorjerrykliner3162Ай бұрын

    I remember, as a kid in New Jersey, that we had a family friend who was a firefighter. Once, he has called to a fire at a historic house that had been an inn well before the Revolutionary war. The fire was devastating and as they were hosing down the wreckage, silver began pouring out of an old beam that had been an exposed rafter. Turns out someone had hollowed out the beam and had inserted silver coins all along the inside of the beam... Whomever had done it had kept the secret and they were utterly forgotten until the fire. The heat of the fire had melted the silver, and when one of the firemen broke through the beam with his axe as they were putting the fire out, all the silver came running out. Who knows how much had been in that cavity, but it went the entire length of the beam...

  • @billbaker2725
    @billbaker272514 күн бұрын

    I grew around a bunch of old farms that dated before tne revolution..me and my brother would walk.tje plowed fields and collect arrowheads..this was in.tne 1970s

  • @edwinpink5040
    @edwinpink50405 күн бұрын

    Before this story broke the person who found the gold coins had posted his video and it showed him with a metal detector. He was not a farmer and it was not his farm. At least that is what was told originally.

  • @DrMatey215
    @DrMatey215Ай бұрын

    For a year in I left silver eagles hidden in plain sight. Silver was cheap $4.50 oz. I left about 18 from Spring to Fall

  • @CongressSux1776

    @CongressSux1776

    Ай бұрын

    What?

  • @analogalbacore7166

    @analogalbacore7166

    Ай бұрын

    Why

  • @taylormade9693
    @taylormade9693Ай бұрын

    Hopefully the government didn’t steal him from him. What a great find. Blessings.

  • @sevartt9046

    @sevartt9046

    Ай бұрын

    That seems to be how many of these types of stories end, unfortunately.

  • @markae0
    @markae0Ай бұрын

    2:40 don't clean your coins because this will greatly lower their value.

  • @jeffreylehman1159

    @jeffreylehman1159

    Ай бұрын

    There was ingrained dirt, he is not talking about chemical cleaning.

  • @D33Lux

    @D33Lux

    Ай бұрын

    Gold doesn't tarnish, simply washing with water and letting it air dry on a clean, soft, towel won't affect it. What does ruin coins is when dumbo's start thumb swiping the dirt off the coins and scratching them up.

  • @hightonesdrifterkent6600
    @hightonesdrifterkent6600Ай бұрын

    Wow! That would have been made for one heck of a video for a metal detecting youtuber!

  • @mikehilbert9349
    @mikehilbert9349Ай бұрын

    No way would i ever tell anyone

  • @jonmacdonald5345

    @jonmacdonald5345

    Ай бұрын

    Same !

  • @KubotaManDan
    @KubotaManDanАй бұрын

    Bet Aquachigger wished it was his discovery, he's always looking for gold coins.

  • @douggodfrey6521
    @douggodfrey6521Ай бұрын

    I couldn't dream a nicer dream .

  • @dougshelton69
    @dougshelton69Ай бұрын

    Conclusion to the story...3 million worth of gold....2.5 million of cleaning and appraisal service😅

  • @crazyburkey3677

    @crazyburkey3677

    Ай бұрын

    And 1 million to the IRS,So he's in the hole 500,000$🤨🫤

  • @MartenKrueger-sx4me

    @MartenKrueger-sx4me

    Ай бұрын

    ​@@crazyburkey3677And why would you or anyone tell the IRS?... For starters if it came To that, possiblity, I would melt down most of it, and it would be turned into ingots, or jewelry.

  • @MartenKrueger-sx4me

    @MartenKrueger-sx4me

    Ай бұрын

    Taxation without representation! Enough said!

  • @crazyburkey3677

    @crazyburkey3677

    Ай бұрын

    @@MartenKrueger-sx4me I'd never be telling a soul, at least about finding it, I'd keep it and cash in the coins one at a time... All too often somebody says they found something, and the next thing you know, a bank or the government, says it was part of a heist from 100 years ago, or that it's a historical artifact, and all you get is MAYBE, a thank you

  • @D33Lux

    @D33Lux

    Ай бұрын

    Amateurs! You find a wealth private buyer by selling the crappiest coin in the collection. Have them sign an NDA, paid in cash for the lot...none the wiser.

  • @stephenmilton9998
    @stephenmilton9998Ай бұрын

    A buried paymasters bank? Soldiers on a retreat? ...a battle or some action near by.

  • @Evom777
    @Evom777Ай бұрын

    Hoards, shipwreck and Carson City coins continue to get hotter in the numismatic world. 🔥

  • @DCIagent
    @DCIagentАй бұрын

    In all conflicts throughout history, people hid their valuables for safe keeping and raiders also hid their loot. Some never survived to re-claim it. From ancient Egypt and Persia to modern conflicts, vast hordes of treasure are still hidden in secret spots. That is what every child's dream is made of -- finding a real 'Treasure Island'.

  • @LygerTheCLaw
    @LygerTheCLawАй бұрын

    for most people this find would be life changing, to a farmer that's only a couple new tractors.

  • @michaelgarcia5689
    @michaelgarcia5689Ай бұрын

    Ive heard of Spanish gold in New Mexico burried long ago. Who knows were its at ?

  • @marksongbird7534

    @marksongbird7534

    Ай бұрын

    It was hidden in la Victoria peak, the government found out about it and confiscated it.

  • @USCGCoasttoast
    @USCGCoasttoastАй бұрын

    Why O why can't I find something like this.

  • @dennisniemier3024
    @dennisniemier3024Ай бұрын

    Awesome find, Congratulations ! FJB 2

  • @esquad5406
    @esquad5406Ай бұрын

    Right out of Eriksen Caldwell's Gods Little Acker.

  • @CHUCKBALLER2024
    @CHUCKBALLER2024Ай бұрын

    i lost it there i want it back

  • @gregorylamb4001
    @gregorylamb4001Ай бұрын

    An amazing find, I hope the IRS didn't get < 50%, as they did to a California couple who found about 10 million in gold coins on their property. The government said the coins didn't belong to them?

  • @Newchannel9o6

    @Newchannel9o6

    Ай бұрын

    $9k spent once a week goes a long way

  • @scottwilson1258
    @scottwilson1258Ай бұрын

    This I wondor is From Either Bonnie and Clyde,the James Gang or John Dillinger? I am thinking the James Gang per the Dates of the Coins.

  • @legacyXplore
    @legacyXploreАй бұрын

    You better believe there is many many caches out there to find. Now I’m not sure how many will be 800 coins :).

  • @preparedsurvivalist2245
    @preparedsurvivalist224523 күн бұрын

    If you were a treasure hunter, just finding ONE piece of gold worth only its own weight would be an amazing and remarkable find. Now imagine finding a gold coin with a numismatic value 10 times its melt value. And not just one, but 8 HUNDRED.

  • @MarvinThiessen
    @MarvinThiessenАй бұрын

    1:34, surprised he's handling coins with bare hands, majority of coin experts use thin cotton gloves.

  • @user-ov4mk9ox8y

    @user-ov4mk9ox8y

    Ай бұрын

    like Pawn Stars where the "expert" called in puts his grubby, greasyi paw prints all over the metal. yeh, right.

  • @D33Lux

    @D33Lux

    Ай бұрын

    Gold doesn't tarnish, only silver does.

  • @av40229
    @av40229Ай бұрын

    Payroll There's hearsay of several payroll bury here in Kentucky. I know of 1 general location, because of collage digs in the area.

  • @roygorman6624
    @roygorman66245 күн бұрын

    Banks are getting more scary as the days go by!

  • @robertlee8400
    @robertlee8400Ай бұрын

    The best thing you can do if you ever find something like this is anybody who looks at these coins or works with these coins is to have them sign a nondisclosure agreement & make the thing iron clad , that way if you decide to sell the whole lot of coins Uncle Sam doesn’t come knocking on your door for taxes , 3 million dollars can help people out especially a treasure like this one & never go to a auction house just because your going to have to pay them after they sell , yes they get there cut for just selling them , you could rent them out to a museum , but with the same thing have them sign a nondisclosure agreement & asked to be paid in cash as you rent them out to them , or you could sell them to a private owner too , I think the best thing you could do is rent them out time after time to museums , you,d keep making money off of them over & over . Just remember that nondisclosure agreement & lawyer up always & get the whole lot of them insured in case they get stolen & have the museums do the same , that’s part of the nondisclosure agreement that way you get double the money for them if they get stolen.

  • @viggler

    @viggler

    Ай бұрын

    what does an NDA have to do with not paying taxes? And what museum is going to pay cash to someone and not file their own tax paperwork? I mean, the guy who found them is a farmer, that's probably his full-time job. I'm sure he wants to give that up to start a new career looking for museums that are going to pay him cash under-the-table to display his coin collection. Not to mention the logistics required for moving, retrieving and storing a collection like that. The quickest and easiest thing to do is probably the auction house, take the money and run. They're going to find all the buyers for you, so maybe the auction house's cut is worth it to most people Second best thing would be for the farmer to find a single buyer for all the coins, but most likely the 800 coins are going to be sold off in many smaller lots. Then he's gotta decide things like -- does he sell all the $20 gold coins to the collector who only wants $20 gold coins versus offers from collectors who only want one of each denomination, or coins of a specific year? Finding the right buyer or buyers or museums is going to cost him time and his sanity.

  • @johnschmitt3783
    @johnschmitt3783Ай бұрын

    The enemy raiders were the union soldiers.

  • @northerniltree
    @northerniltreeАй бұрын

    John Sutter's American River sawmill foreman could have learned from this 176 years- too- late video.

  • @industrialintensity2101
    @industrialintensity2101Ай бұрын

    This is why you don’t tell people about the stuff you find.

  • @davidm4160
    @davidm4160Ай бұрын

    Great story. I would keep the coins.

  • @Deletedcommentfactory
    @DeletedcommentfactoryАй бұрын

    Surprised that the government didn’t find a way to take the coins.

  • @david4096

    @david4096

    Ай бұрын

    They will

  • @ralphsmith4215

    @ralphsmith4215

    Ай бұрын

    Probably watched this video and put their agents on a plane to Kentucky!

  • @ericmcdowell5762
    @ericmcdowell5762Ай бұрын

    Why would you want to convert them into USD's (by selling them) ?!?

  • @generaldisarray6488
    @generaldisarray6488Ай бұрын

    There’s a few well known lost buried treasures in Kentucky from the civil war

  • @standubaj8989
    @standubaj8989Ай бұрын

    Couldn’t happen to a better person

  • @jeffpagan7735
    @jeffpagan7735Ай бұрын

    So sad some southern local was trying to ensure a future in an unstable time, and probably died or was killed.

  • @mattp4079
    @mattp4079Ай бұрын

    Drug dealers and guys running shady debt collection agencies are known to bury cash in PVC tubes. They also hide stash behind electrical wall plates, deep within the wall, with fishing line attached.

  • @JFEnterprize

    @JFEnterprize

    Ай бұрын

    A guy I knew found bag of white powder in the wall after buying the home knowing a coke dealer lived there prior. Some carpenters took down a huge library of bookshelves and they used 90% coins to shim the strips.

  • @alannahayter8491
    @alannahayter8491Ай бұрын

    good thing he wasn't in the UK, if someone finds 10 coins or more it's considered a hoard and has to be turned over to the government.

  • @riverraisin1

    @riverraisin1

    Ай бұрын

    I'm guessing Brits now conveniently only find 9 coins at a time?🤨

  • @SteveJohnson-be9eu
    @SteveJohnson-be9euАй бұрын

    I want a farm 😁

  • @SavageWhiteBread
    @SavageWhiteBreadАй бұрын

    My uncle found a small pouch full of gold and silver coins attached to a small chain the pouch was buried in the ground next to a perimeter fence post on a very old piece of property the coins were from the 1800s and 1 or 2 of the coins were from the 1700s but my aunt stole them and put him in her back savings account nobody will probably ever see them again.

  • @RoseBud-fk4qg
    @RoseBud-fk4qgАй бұрын

    I only found a quarter and a dime and a silver trade dollar

  • @dustintacohands1107
    @dustintacohands1107Ай бұрын

    You bury a new penny it’ll explode into white foam once tiny copper layer is wore off. I was digging new pennies of the group the where around 4 years old and many where covered in a white crust I think from the zinc when it’s sitting on wet group it just disintegrates.

  • @user-ov4mk9ox8y

    @user-ov4mk9ox8y

    Ай бұрын

    scrificial zinc ingots/plates are mounted on sailboats and iron hull ships for just that reason: the electrolosis in water or salt water eats the zinc first. makes sense.

  • @dustintacohands1107

    @dustintacohands1107

    Ай бұрын

    @@user-ov4mk9ox8y I called them Obama Pennies I couldnt believe they just blew up like that in the ground. Theyve basically given up on Pennies inflation has made them so worthless it would cost 5 cents for proper amount of copper I think.

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    @gamingbigfats3934Ай бұрын

    GOLD is King!!

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    @cockyhemi-123Ай бұрын

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  • @scottbruno7820
    @scottbruno782027 күн бұрын

    Unless some of those enemy raiders were local lol and they had to stash it

  • @patrickbass3542
    @patrickbass354215 күн бұрын

    Doesn't look like a "freshly plowed" field!

  • @user-zf3xb3qx8w
    @user-zf3xb3qx8wАй бұрын

    18? 1863? Mint condition? some govt. employee or civil war official has some 'splainin to do. feels/looks/sounds stolen to me. if there was/is an inventory list in some archive, it may match this hoard!!

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    @DirtNerds3 күн бұрын

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  • @ypcomchic
    @ypcomchicАй бұрын

    Any other coin that is cleaned gets that put on the slab by a grading company. But apparently those rules don’t apply to old gold found in dirt. SMH

  • @AustinKoleCarlisle

    @AustinKoleCarlisle

    Ай бұрын

    cleaned even shouldn't affect value.

  • @Ozarkwoods
    @OzarkwoodsАй бұрын

    I would never have gone to have the coins cleaned by someone. I would have researched it and would have done it myself.

  • @trifecta1
    @trifecta1Ай бұрын

    Probably shouldn't have told anyone about his find. I'm sure there will be people trying to sue saying it was their families and it was stolen

  • @Beauacadian
    @BeauacadianАй бұрын

    Maybe a payroll that was military buried before a battle.

  • @harryzero1566
    @harryzero1566Ай бұрын

    In the UK we aren't allowed to keep much unless its junk.

  • @cg5648

    @cg5648

    Ай бұрын

    How sad, why does your country hate its people?

  • @harryzero1566

    @harryzero1566

    Ай бұрын

    @@cg5648 the authorities are so hung up on 2000 years of history and its determination that nobody should be able to get rich without the establishment getting a share. Incredibly, people are so ingrained with the 'principle' of handing in unexpected finds, even from recent History, that they think its illegal not to. Notably, someone found some late 20th century gold Krugerands, another some 200+ sovereigns in a piano left by a previously deceased occupant, when they moved in to the property, another recently lowered the floor level in an old cottage and found 400yr old gold and silver coins. The museums are loaded with old gold and silver coin finds that don't even make public viewing. It's a criminal offence not to report and surrender finds of more than a prescribed threshold, it used to be finds of intrinsic value, now it includes artifacts that can be made from anything at all. The trouble is we are top heavy with jobsworth burocrats, who consider themselves as guardians of the past

  • @americanharleyrider8

    @americanharleyrider8

    Ай бұрын

    There is a reason we left Yorkshire.

  • @Look_What_You_Did

    @Look_What_You_Did

    Ай бұрын

    @@cg5648 Law is no different in your country.

  • @cg5648

    @cg5648

    Ай бұрын

    @@Look_What_You_Did , that guy kept it all because he found it on his land.