Rare Gold Coins Found Buried In Kentucky

[Wagerallsports]

Rare gold coins found buried in Kentucky cornfield worth millions: 'In line with winning the lottery'​

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A cache of more than 800 Civil War-era gold coins were recently unearthed in a Kentucky cornfield — a treasure worth millions that experts are calling one of the greatest finds of the 21st century.

"It's hard to put this in context because there are so few instances of coins of this nature with this level of rarity being found in the ground in the United States," Andrew Salzberg, executive vice president of the Numismatic Guaranty Company’s (NGC) Certified Collectibles Group, told Fox News Digital.

NGC, a third-party grading service for coins, tokens and medals based in Sarasota, Florida, certified the coins — dubbed the "Great Kentucky Hoard" — and valued them at more than $2 million.

"Most of them are gold dollars, which in and of themselves are really interesting pieces of numismatic history," Salzberg said.

In addition, he added, there were some $20 gold pieces — "a couple of which were dated 1863 and graded MS 64, which is the highest grade that has ever been graded," he said.


The finder of the coins and the exact location of the apparent buried treasure remain a mystery as of now, as those aware are honoring the request to keep names of the people who found the coins and the names of the cornfield anonymous.

This is due to the value of the discovery, the security and the risk of others who desire to treasure hunt themselves, Fox News Digital has been told.

Clues about the discovery itself are documented in a 20-second YouTube video.

A man is shown narrating as he pulls piles of coins from the soil.

"This is the most insane thing ever," the man said in the video, in part.


"Those are $1 gold coins, $20 gold coins, $10 gold coins. And look, I’m still digging them out."

Jeff Garrett, owner of Mid-American Rare Coin Gallery in Lexington, Kentucky, was the recipient of an email from the anonymous discoverer.

"Someone wanted me to look at an 1863 Double Eagle, which is a very rare coin," Garrett told Fox News Digital.

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Location of Kentucky cornfield where coins were found remains mystery as experts speculate about the 1860s-dated currency

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[Wagerallsports]

When will these people learn to keep their mouth shut when they find stuff like this LOL

 

[BMR Genie]

When will these people learn to keep their mouth shut when they find stuff like this LOL

The government is about to hunt him lol.

 

[Wagerallsports]

The government is about to hunt him lol.

No doubt Genie the government always takes stuff like this from people when they find it, especially gold

 

[rdalert447]

If anyone gets the chance, read into the Mel Fisher story. Guy searched for a Spanish shipwreck for 16 years off the coast of Florida. Finally found it, 40 tons of gold and silver, valued at the time at $450 million. The. Had to fight with the State of Florida for eight years over taxes.

 

[Wagerallsports]

If anyone gets the chance, read into the Mel Fisher story. Guy searched for a Spanish shipwreck for 16 years off the coast of Florida. Finally found it, 40 tons of gold and silver, valued at the time at $450 million. The. Had to fight with the State of Florida for eight years over taxes.

Thanks going to check that story out

 

[BrickJames]

The shit is buried everywhere, our money used to be made of gold and silver.

The oldest bank in the world is the ground.

There are riches buried throughout the world, and a ton of the shit siting at the bottom of oceans seas and lakes via ship wrecks.

 

[Wagerallsports]

The shit is buried everywhere, our money used to be made of gold and silver.

The oldest bank in the world is the ground.

There are riches buried throughout the world, and a ton of the shit siting at the bottom of oceans seas and lakes via ship wrecks.

You are right

Can't imagine the feeling stumble upon one of those treasures

Would you keep quiet about it?

 

[BobbyFK]

You are right

Can't imagine the feeling stumble upon one of those treasures

Would you keep quiet about it?

Of course you keep quiet about it. Just like winning the lottery. You don't tell everybody at least not until you get things set up correctly with a financial advisor and lawyers. Once you start telling everyone every Tom, Dick and Harry that you met will be coming out of the woodworks looking for money