The Great Kentucky Hoard - Part 1 (Lexington, KY) | Kentucky Life | KET

Smart guy, great story. When you find something your right hand doesn't even tell your left hand, you tell no one. When you do decide to share your find you tell one reputable person and show them one of what you found while disclosing nothing more than a single coin as he did. So many people feel the need to call an "authority," "higher power," which invariably ends up poorly for the finder. The "authority" manufactures some sort of reason that your find is now somehow theirs, i.e. they get the gold mine and you get the shaft. Very nice story to hear, handled perfectly.

We had a boarder who lived in Charlottsville,VA. in the 1930's. He as a child was digging in a Bank about 100 feet from the house and found n old jar full of old coins dating back to the civil war.Many people also didn't trust banks after each financial crisis.This happens through the years.

Me: Turns house upside down trying to find a pen. Farmer: Casually strolling in a cornfield and finds gold coins sticking out of the dirt.

Decades ago, I worked a tobacco farm in Kentucky. After the harvest and turning of the fields I would walk them looking for arrowheads. I found some beauties, but I never found anything like that.

People sometimes buried their stash near the chicken coop as the birds would make a racket if people poked around,, that is where I try to look first,,

In about 10 years, that $3 million will get you just one shopping cart filled at your local Walmart...

Hard to believe TSA didn’t take the opportunity to confiscate the coins at the airport.

Being a Kentuckian, I’m so proud for this farmer finding this “hoarde”!

God Bless You Jeff, Miss Your Numismatist Meetings In Kenntucy. Glad They Choose You For Their Consignment Of The Hoard.

Back in 1990 I got permission from a land owner to dig for antique bottles at an old 1870s farm house. We didn't find much but we did have a look through the old abandoned farm house. It had 9 rooms! I noticed a little slit in the wall boards that looked like it was polished. I shrugged it off and went on my way. As it happened about ten years later I ran across a guy who worked for an excavating company and was asking him if he ever uncovers bottles. He said yes and then he talked about the money that poured out of the walls of an old farm house when they were tearing it down. It was that same farmhouse. The original owner put his coins into that little opening in his bedroom wall boards and filled all the way up. It was sickening hearing him list the coins that were in there knowing I could have had them all. Yes, there were gold coins!!!! Oh well.

3 million dollars - And Uncle Sam, the parasite will thank you for reporting your huge capital gain and giving them a huge piece of your windfall. The smart play would have been to sell them to coin shops in small increments over a few years and take cash only.

What a great story. I came across it just by chance on YouTube. Well done.

Just imagine how much More is out there boys from Western Kentucky 🇺🇲❤️

I found a 1974 penny in a parking lot once.😅

Seeing that it was a farmer that found the hoard. I would have to say “hard work paid off” for him in a fantastic way.

3:42 -> "Banks aren't reliable or safe." Yea, the Song Remains the Same, Murell.

Outstanding in his field

Allegedly, this isn't the only stash of Confederate era gold in KY. There's legends of lots of gold that has never been recovered including a hoard of gold bars out there somewhere.....

There is a farmer near me in Missouri that pulls up several gold double eagles every year he plows his fields. He is in the little Dixi area and has only told one person that I know of and he has never to this day revealed who it is but I've seen some of them first hand.

Great episode. Some farmer got mega-rich in less than a hour. As someone with a coin collection I knew about this hoard, but it was interesting to hear Jeff talk about it. On to part 2.