Gold Turning the World to Treasure Hunting .. Many Hoards to be Located . 1933.

[jeff of pa]

1933 Gold Price $32.32 an OZ
up almost $12. from 1932


Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.), 26 Nov. 1933.








https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/...&proxValue=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=703

================

Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.), 26 Nov. 1933.

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1933-11-26/ed-1/seq-28/

 

[Holyground]

Imagine New Mexico and Arizona back in the day. There where treasure hunting Scallywags behind every rock. Just watch the videos of Willie Dougit. Him and Buster were out there scuffin heads and taking pot shots at upstarts considered a threat. They wern't the worst of them. During the depression, people just walked away from the mess in the cities and wandered into the Wilderness looking for treaure. If we only had their stories, you could write a best seller.

 

[Tom_in_CA]

Jeff, love your old clippings

... There where treasure hunting Scallywags behind every rock. ....

And every rock had a secret symbol, cryptogram, cipher, or clue ! (even a funny shaped rock is a sure clue to "treasure" ! )

 

[fistfulladirt]

Huh? Ex order 6102. I’m thinking this article didn’t apply to the US.

 

[Argentium]

Interesting that the date of the article is Nov. 1933 , It was April of that year that F.D.R. enacted the " Great American Gold Grab". Whereby all citizens were required to turn in their gold coins for paper money ( I suppose they could demand silver coin - but with the Depression on heavily by 1933 -good luck !) Many right thinking folks figuratively raised a collective middle finger to the idea of turning their gold in , rather they put them in jars ,or tobbaco tins, and hid them in the root cellar - or buried them in the chicken coop. While the article primarily was centered on England , the "Gold Grab of 1933" here in the U.S. no doubt resulted in numerous small hoards of gold coins , many of which were no doubt never recovered.

 

[Holyground]

Jeff, love your old clippings



And every rock had a secret symbol, cryptogram, cipher, or clue ! (even a funny shaped rock is a sure clue to "treasure" ! )

That's a fact! Not today.