CONFEDERATE GOLD IN DANVILLE, VA.

franklin · Jul 13, 2018

Here is a link to an article in the Richmond Newspaper April 16, 2017

Dreams of Confederate Gold https://www.richmond.com/discover-r...cle_b17d5cfc-d00e-51c7-9a1b-df1eecc7a1ab.html

Finally got it to work. Moderators please delete the double post of the one that does not work.

Kace · Jul 15, 2018

Great Article franklin!

I'd love to see those pics you posted awhile back of some of the things you have found over the years... if you feel comfortable posting those again. I missed them the last time you posted and the attachments were invalid when I tried to open them.

Kace

franklin · Jul 15, 2018

Refresh my memory. I have posted so much over the years, I can not remember to which attachments you are talking about?

Kace · Jul 15, 2018

franklin said:
Refresh my memory. I have posted so much over the years, I can not remember to which attachments you are talking about?

It was on the Beale sub forum... you had deleted the post/pics but someone used the quote with attachments. The reply sounded like different coins and caches possibly. It looked like maybe 5 attachments you had made. Not too terribly long ago.

I'll have to go through them again. I don't remember the thread.

Kace

Kace · Jul 15, 2018

franklin...No worries... if I stumble on it again I'll let you know. I should of marked it.

Thanks,
Kace

Kace · Jul 15, 2018

FOUND IT...

It's on the Beale Sub Forum..Titled:

The Beale Papers Authenticated Without A Doubt
By Jean Laf

Post #223

Your original post is gone... He quoted your post in his response.

Thanks franklin,

Kace

franklin · Jul 15, 2018

Kace said:
FOUND IT...

It's on the Beale Sub Forum..Titled:

The Beale Papers Authenticated Without A Doubt
By Jean Laf

Post #223

Your original post is gone... He quoted your post in his response.

Thanks franklin,

Kace

Sorry, Kace. I have no way of knowing what those attachments were. Maybe a moderator could help you out and they can recover those attachments?

Kace · Jul 15, 2018

franklin said:
Sorry, Kace. I have no way of knowing what those attachments were. Maybe a moderator could help you out and they can recover those attachments?

No Worries!

Kace

franklin · Jul 16, 2018

Kace, I am going to attempt to post some of the 18 Confederate States of America Treasury that my partner and I found in 2008. I believe that is what the attachments were that are missing.

1861 Mexican Silver Dollar Front Side.webp

There is a lot more but I can not post all yet.

All of these coins except two were sold with a Certificate of Authenticity. I even promised the purchasers that when the large depositories were recovered and sold that they would each receive one million dollars upon the sale of the coins. The 20 francs gold was given to my partner as well as the 1862 Indian Head Penny. He still has both. The 1853 Mexican Silver was given to my brother in law in W.Va. He still has it. The British Farthing I have lost or miss-placed, I may find it again?

Kace · Jul 17, 2018

VERY NICE franklin!!

THANK YOU FOR POSTING THOSE!

What's the picture of on the concrete/asphalt? I couldn't make it out.

Kace

franklin · Jul 17, 2018

Kace said:
VERY NICE franklin!!

THANK YOU FOR POSTING THOSE!

What's the picture of on the concrete/asphalt? I couldn't make it out.

Kace

That was one of the Mexican Silver Dollar Kegs we found at the bottom of a 23 foot deep well under a paved church parking lot. We found hundreds of pounds of band wire from boxes and kegs that had been burned in the well. The coins had been removed and buried, most likely hauled off in coffins to a burial in the cemetery.

Rebel - KGC · Jul 17, 2018

YEP! Rebs burned LOTS of stuff in Danville, Va. "in the last days"...

franklin · Jul 17, 2018

Rebel - KGC said:
YEP! Rebs burned LOTS of stuff in Danville, Va. "in the last days"...

Yes they did but I do not believe they burned the CSA Records. I believe they are buried in a 38 ft. by 38 ft. vault in Danville.

Kace · Jul 17, 2018

franklin said:
That was one of the Mexican Silver Dollar Kegs we found at the bottom of a 23 foot deep well under a paved church parking lot. We found hundreds of pounds of band wire from boxes and kegs that had been burned in the well. The coins had been removed and buried, most likely hauled off in coffins to a burial in the cemetery.

WOW!...Were the coins you found in that vicinity? That's Amazing to find that much burned off keg metal in that well!

Kace

franklin · Jul 17, 2018

Kace said:
WOW!...Were the coins you found in that vicinity? That's Amazing to find that much burned off keg metal in that well!

Kace

The pieces of the keg where in the very bottom of the well so most likely some water stayed down there to keep all of it from burning? We also found three of the large brown jugs that contained at one time, Secretary of the Treasury George Alfred Trenholm's Peach Brandy. Two of them broke and one was in-tact about a 2 gallon jug.

L.C. BAKER · Jul 17, 2018

franklin said:
That was one of the Mexican Silver Dollar Kegs we found at the bottom of a 23 foot deep well under a paved church parking lot. We found hundreds of pounds of band wire from boxes and kegs that had been burned in the well. The coins had been removed and buried, most likely hauled off in coffins to a burial in the cemetery.

Definitely a good place to see the sites!

L.C. :icon_thumright:

Kace · Jul 18, 2018

franklin said:
The pieces of the keg where in the very bottom of the well so most likely some water stayed down there to keep all of it from burning? We also found three of the large brown jugs that contained at one time, Secretary of the Treasury George Alfred Trenholm's Peach Brandy. Two of them broke and one was in-tact about a 2 gallon jug.

That's interesting! I wonder if the brandy jugs were down there to stay cool? I wouldn't think he would of just thrown them out...especially in that time. I wouldn't of! HA!

I like to know the origins and meanings of words and names... kind of an amateur Etymologist I guess....It goes along with being a taphophile! lol!

Anyway...Was or Is there an Island or a Lone Hill anywhere around that well? Or either one of those anywhere you know he was staying, camped by or had a connection to?

Folks back then knew where they came from and what different words and names meant....So for him...the second syllable of his surname 'holm' means Island... Even the name/word Holmes can mean that. Holm can be, but is less often used for Holly... but there are circumstances where it could be used to reference a Holly Tree...Very Uncommon though for that English translation. That doesn't mean it shouldn't be considered if looking for something.

Just something to think about if you're bored! lol!

Kace

franklin · Jul 18, 2018

A bunch of Holly Trees has information on them also. Each has a small amount of information about different areas of the treasure. You have to take and figure out all of them before you can get a good picture of the area.