A California family stumbled across a hoard of 1,400 mint-condition gold coins from the 19th century that had been buried in their backyard. Some of the coins are so rare, they could be worth $1 million apiece. Scott Pelley reports.
NEVER EVER tell the goverment when u find treasure. EVER. If you have to sell it to random pawnshops over the course of years or random ebay sales you do that. The goverment has never once helped these people they just steal it every single time
Just like they did in Dent's Run Pa a couple years ago, stole right out out from under the prospectors who found it. They were marked FBI, but surely their were treasury agents present during the thief in the night dig they conducted.
Can anyone provide a theory of what happened to the original owner of these gold coins? Why was these coins not part of this stacker will/trust and passed to future generations?
Necro post but gold was made illegal to own except for small quantities in 1933. People would stash their gold along property lines and dig it up if they needed to sell it piecemeal. It's likely that someone had all their savings in gold buried in those cans, forgot where they buried it or died and there they sat until someone got lucky. Best way to determine this would be to analyze the cans to see when they were made via chemical analysis or labels, then see if someone from that time had property where the gold was stashed.
