Doubt it.
There’s a few other websites I’m sure they’re spending their resources on. Who would waste their time targeting grumpy old men that stomp around the woods muttering to themselves and digging small holes while swinging a glorified weed whacker? 🤣
glorified weed whacker you say? If mine could whack weeds then at least I'd have a good use for it
Based on all the previous posts ... Had it been dug previously to bury something it should be amenable to re digging. But even so I think many here are overly optimistic about moving all that material in a day by hand tools, Even if half was only moved over as you swept across methodically. Unless you are Paul Bunyan ...
5 foot is kinda deep for caving materials ... even stepping ( or sloping at the angle of repose for the materials) would require some over digging. If the rest of the area had not also been dug and refilled - just remove the recent surface cover and reveal the former excavation location. Many subsurface things have been found this way. If they dropped it in a post hole excavation that is how you get it. If they dug an inverted pyramid, you follow that never bothering to mess with the formerly undisturbed native material. Because why?
But since this treasure is not known to actually exist it might be a good idea to bring a bucket of fresh fairy dust to sprinkle very evenly over the area before you get started. That should coalesce into a big x to mark the spot, if the moon is right.
If there were 60 of them at the $10 variety we'd be looking for 30 ounces melt min. The highest price I have seen for the best example was
$336,000 USD.
Douglas Winter Numismatics (DWN), based in
Portland, recently purchased the single finest known example of the rare
1849 Oregon “Beaver” five-dollar gold piece, graded MS62 by
PCGS. The firm bought this coin at the recently-held
Stack’s Bowers August 2020 auction acting as an agent for a Southern
California collector. The final price realized was
$336,000 USD, which is believed to be a record price for this coveted and historic issue.
Are these in mint state? And the rarity factor was already discussed if you have a bunch. A slow release to the market starting with mediocre quality and increasingly better examples would be the way to go with never divulging your reserve quantity.
Need a cover story? (assuming you don't have rights to where they are now) Buy some cheap land and be seen out there detecting and digging day and night then claim to find one every now and then.
After a few sales ( or even the first) buy a small Kubota shallow back hoe tractor and make a huge show of it as if they are randomly sprinkled about, never having found the next until the current auction ends. Such a lucky guy !!!
Pay your taxes and count your blessings. No need for security expenses on the site. Let the thieves play all they want, they will never find anything because they are all in your basement safe or bank deposit box. But do report trespassers as if you cared
If they are watching you real close have a false pants pocket and let one fall down the inside of your pant leg then find it where you are poking around. Rush off the site and get it to PCGS to be graded for the next auction listing. If you think you are in danger? just don't find one that day when the creepy folks are around. Besides you don't need to have every find witnessed once you have established a pattern on your gold mine
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