Imagine this: you take your dog out for a walk on your property. You’re strolling down a trail you’ve walked down for years, but today something catches your eye. It’s just the lip of a rusty can that’s popped out of the ground, but you bend over to take a closer look and pull it out of the ground. Inside, you find a stack of mint condition gold coins, glinting in the sunlight. You begin digging and find another and another and another. All told, you’ve just found about $10 million in gold.
The find, which Kagin is calling the Saddle Ridge Hoard, may end up being the largest discovery of buried treasure in U.S. history. The 1,427 gold coins in denominations of $5, $10, and $20 were stored in chronological order from 1847 to 1894. Nearly all of them are in uncirculated, mint condition, which indicates that the hoard was an underground bank for an unidentified individual who must have lived on the property back in the 19th century.
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