OT: Civil War Gold Found

[lioncutter]

Maybe it is some of the Confederate buried gold stories you hear about.
All happened in my backyard.

https://www.lex18.com/news/kentucky-man ... -cornfield

[keilg1]

...world's greatest hobby...

Love, and agree with, the quote.

[RogerRock]

Fantastic civil war coin hoard discovered while plowing a corn field in Kentucky. Eighteen 1863 Liberty Head Double Eagle Twenty Dollar gold coins were included in the count of over 700 coins. It is remarkable that most of this treasure consisted of gold coins with only a small percentage of silver coins.

[Tekkie1]

I saw this story yesterday.
Thought to myself, I wouldn't be growing any corn until I checked out the rest of the field thoroughly.

[RogerB]

What are the facts? Multiple posts and articles are inconsistent. Who brokered the deal? What's the date/mint/denomination breakdown? When was this discovered? Most cornfields are not plowed anymore.

[lioncutter]

More needs to be learned of the discovered hoard. So let's speculate.
It does refer to it being found in the Blue Grass area of Kentucky, which is central Kentucky area and maybe even in Madison County (Richmond KY) since that is where the coin dealer is.
Here is a possibility. A confederate General named John Morgan had his men (Morgan's Raiders) rob banks in the late stages of the Civil War in Kentucky. Here is a link to that story. The dates of the coins 1850-62 would line up with this robbery and this would of happened just north of Madison County in Mt. Sterling, Ky.

https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=83483

[messydesk]

What are the facts? Multiple posts and articles are inconsistent. Who brokered the deal? What's the date/mint/denomination breakdown? When was this discovered? Most cornfields are not plowed anymore.

Brokered by Jeff Garrett, being sold through govmint.com (*cringe*). Here's another article.

[collectinsince65]

Cool story. A long time friend in Lexington tipped me off to this story on Wednesday.
Here's another link with an image of Jeff sitting a desk with stacks of slabs from the hoard.
https://www.ngccoin.com/news/article/11 ... war-coins/

[Albannach]

Theres a story of a property in Kentucky or Tennessee hundred of acres
The guy was a dentist and buried bags (mostly located today with metal detectors) at the base of old trees
He would bury all sorts of currency confederate AND US
Dentist were basically the first field surgeons and did very well on both sides
As far as I know they are still looking at the bases of old trees all over his land….with and without permission

[keilg1]

If you've got some spare time and the inclination you might watch something my wife and I enjoyed during the lockdown: https://uktvplay.co.uk/shows/detectorists/watch-online.

Having picked up a pretty good detector lately but unable to find willing landowners to let me use it, I'm feeling a bit like a kid with a speedy car in the driveway and my dad won't give me the keys to take it for a spin...

[UNCLE BINGO]

I was gonna stay out of this , Facts will not be forthcoming IMO....be fearful for every corn field in Kentucky... there are so many "DIE HARD " treasure hunters that will try to attach this to something... they may claim it KCG . or Jesse James , or Morgan Raiders . or even the answer to the Beale Cipher ... If you think the Forest Fenn thing got out of control . keep an eye on this saga ......'

And about a hundred more stories I did not mention https://www.treasurenet.com/forums/trea ... tucky.475/

It should be interesting to watch what unfolds .... hope the finder does not suffer the treasure finders curse that sometimes comes with the game

[UNCLE BINGO]

If you've got some spare time and the inclination you might watch something my wife and I enjoyed during the lockdown: https://uktvplay.co.uk/shows/detectorists/watch-online.

Having picked up a pretty good detector lately but unable to find willing landowners to let me use it, I'm feeling a bit like a kid with a speedy car in the driveway and my dad won't give me the keys to take it for a spin...

I here that if you can get permission, somewhere over the pond , and find anything significant enough . Sometimes the official Gov , type, museum folks will do a treasure split ???That is far different than somethings found on public land in the states .

[impairedsquirrel]

I think the John Morgan story could hold some water, but also think there's a chance that someone buried them before heading off to the war, then never returned from the war...
Knowing who owned the property over the years would likely solve the mystery.

[RogerB]

The simpler way to handle this is to skip the corn field, and go right to the bourbon. A few tastes and who'll care about some old dirty coins.

[UNCLE BINGO]

The simpler way to handle this is to skip the corn field, and go right to the bourbon. A few tastes and who'll care about some old dirty coins.

You probably would not even need the bourbon, I grew up with a kid who moved out here from someplace
Near Lexington . All you would need is a couple guitars . Any old corn field or hollar would suffice , folks would come and bring moonshine and shovels , they would start digging and singing and carrying on until things got out of hand and someone got hit in the head with one of the shovels or the guitars ,,,

Just be very afraid if someone shows up with a banjo , and starts that dueling nonsense