Confederate Gold from the Civil War was Found in a Shocking Place

[jeff of pa]

you Can Debate The Story , I Expect if true the Feds have shills to Follow & Refute the Story, However ...
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[achanceforgold]

you Can Debate The Story , I Expect the Feds have shills to Follow & Refute the Story, However ...
Warning ! No Attacks on Dennis Parada (Finders Keepers) !
They are Member Here & Must Be Respected Here !!

I heard about this a few years back.
Sorry to hear those guys are still fighting with the government/FBI.

That's the problem. You can't even trust law enforcement.

I read somewhere that the U.S. claims all gold from the civil war as government property, North or South.

 

[ToddsPoint]

I read somewhere that the U.S. claims all gold from the civil war as government property, North or South.

That’s absurd. A guy in KY found 7-800 gold coins that were clearly civil war related. He had them graded and sold them all. This included rare 1863 double eagles. Those were clearly paid by the gov during the war to a private individual for goods or services.

 

[3cylbill]

the FBI wouldn't have been there if they weren't 100% sure the gold was there...

 

[achanceforgold]

That’s absurd. A guy in KY found 7-800 gold coins that were clearly civil war related. He had them graded and sold them all. This included rare 1863 double eagles. Those were clearly paid by the gov during the war to a private individual for goods or services.

The Kentucky find can't be traced back to the gold being owned by either the Union or Confederate government.

Maybe I said it incorrectly, if it was either Union or Confederate owned gold the government can claim it.
Not just gold from the time period.

The find in Pennsylvania, if I remember correctly, is thought to be a Federal Gold shipment that the Union Soldiers hide because they heard confederate soldiers were in the area. Hence it made it property of the U.S. government. That's why the treasure hunters called the FBI in.
In 1862 they issued a law, that made all Confederate Gold subject to confiscation by the U.S. government. If it is Confederate gold. The U.S. government can legally claim it's theirs.

So, if you find Gold, that may have been owned by the confederacy, .... Well, you decide how you want to handle it.

 

[releventchair]

Hear-say!

 

[Tnmountains]

That KY cache in the farmers field was believed to have been hidden due to the fear of banks and war . Never knew how it was aquired.

 

[ISmellGold]

you Can Debate The Story , I Expect if true the Feds have shills to Follow & Refute the Story, However ...
Warning ! No Attacks on Dennis Parada (Finders Keepers) !
They are Member Here & Must Be Respected Here !!

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[Carl-NC]

Funny, the narrator got most of the treasure story wrong. But it's all fiction so I spoze it doesn't really matter.

 

[KYgotGOLD]

The ky guy thang cracks me up.

 

[achanceforgold]

Ole Captain Kirk did a story on it a while ago.

 

[ToddsPoint]

That KY cache in the farmers field was believed to have been hidden due to the fear of banks and war . Never knew how it was aquired.

For that farmer to have 1863 double eagles, he had to obtain them as direct payment from the gov for goods or services. The ‘63s they found were uncirculated. One of them is now the highest ‘63 graded double eagles known. Paid to the farmer directly from gov coffers, these weren’t old circulating coins. (Not the dollar coins that were found, only the double eagles.) Double eagles were used by the gov to purchase war materials from ‘61-‘65. Most of them ended up in Europe. In the north, the gov was purchasing 200,000 lbs of hay daily from farmers to feed all the union horses. That farmer was selling something directly to the gov.

 

[Limitool]

The Kentucky find can't be traced back to the gold being owned by either the Union or Confederate government.
So, if you find Gold, that may have been owned by the confederacy, .... Well, you decide how you want to handle it.

EXACTLY...! Nothing good can / will come from announcing a life changing find like some Civil War era coins. Keep your mouth shut and be VERY patient and you can easily sell each one without any attention coming your way. Even 200-300 of them. But many folks I guess just can't / wouldn't do that for some reason.

On the Kentucky horde.... I wonder how much income tax he had to pay by announcing his fine...? And the only reason he had too was because he showed and told the world.

 

[Tesorodeoro]

They don’t say a word about how he “found” it. A mystic pointed to a spot on a map. Lo and behold, they had pointed to human remains and hidden civil war and pirate treasure!

Why did the guy leave out those parts? That makes it an even more enthralling internet story.

 

[UnderMiner]

You dig it, they keep it.

 

[Gare]

20 or so years back I heard of this gold. I had a lot of information on it. I remember it was supposed to be a shipment to Philadelphia mint. There was no mention of confederate gold, We rode our horses all over that area,. A lot of the soldiers in that wagon train Died,from diseases and snake bites. There is a lot of Rattle Snakes in that area. I remember going through the OR's and could not find any sargent o Lieutenant by those names Nor records of any shi[ment up through Dents run

 

[Doubter in MD]

My opinion - There is no gold at Dent's run. There never was.

On a side note, I love this site but there is confusion over what constitutes an "attack" on other members. Disbelief in any given story is natural. Treasurenet's policy of silencing and sometimes banning members for questioning some of the things posted here is wrong.

I get that things can devolve quickly and arguments can break out easily, but the "NO QUESTIONING" policy is overly aggressive and often unevenly applied. Again, my opinion.

 

[achanceforgold]

EXACTLY...! Nothing good can / will come from announcing a life changing find like some Civil War era coins. Keep your mouth shut and be VERY patient and you can easily sell each one without any attention coming your way. Even 200-300 of them. But many folks I guess just can't / wouldn't do that for some reason.

On the Kentucky horde.... I wonder how much income tax he had to pay by announcing his fine...? And the only reason he had too was because he showed and told the world.

Along this line.

Let's say you found a very large nugget of gold, just under the surface. When you and your dog were out in the woods.
But the nugget was too big for you to lift up and carry it back to the car. Just too heavy.

First, how can you get it out of the woods? About a mile or so in maybe more.
Without everyone knowing what you are doing.

Second, how can you get it on the market to sell it without the government try to take it?

Purely Hypothetical Question.
But something I'm trying to solve in my head.

 

[Limitool]

Purely Hypothetical Question.
But something I'm trying to solve in my head.

Below is a thread I started way back in 2013-14. I did it after spending a lot of time back at a cave I found. Then I discovered it was undocumented. This was just off Natache Trace / Duck River area of Hickman Co. I discovered the cave in 94' but NEVER entered a small opening just off the entrance due to piled up dirt and bobcat tracks. The thread below had a lot of different answers about what to do if a horde of coins were found.

Thread 'Another "hypothetical" find... Gold coins'

Mar 15, 2014

QUESTION: If you found an old weathered leather bag (2) with 100+ gold coins in them on somebody else's property in a very rural area with NOTHING around... what would you do? Change the "truth" ... melting them sucks ... selling them leads to questions or could. I'm just curious what some of you think.

• Limitool
• Replies: 97
• Forum: General Discussion

 

[achanceforgold]

Below is a thread I started way back in 2013-14. I did it after spending a lot of time back at a cave I found. Then I discovered it was undocumented. This was just off Natache Trace / Duck River area of Hickman Co. I discovered the cave in 94' but NEVER entered a small opening just off the entrance due to piled up dirt and bobcat tracks. The thread below had a lot of different answers about what to do if a horde of coins were found.

Thread 'Another "hypothetical" find... Gold coins'

Mar 15, 2014

QUESTION: If you found an old weathered leather bag (2) with 100+ gold coins in them on somebody else's property in a very rural area with NOTHING around... what would you do? Change the "truth" ... melting them sucks ... selling them leads to questions or could. I'm just curious what some of you think.

• Limitool
• Replies: 97
• Forum: General Discussion

yes, lots of moral dilemmas in the responses
But this is slightly different.
No one owns the land, it's public property.
Just you and your dog there.

How do you physically get it out of the woods?
Without chopping it all up.