Couple takes dog for walk, finds $10-million in buried coins
Couple takes dog for walk, finds real-life ‘pot of gold at the end of the rainbow’: $10-million in buried coins
Nearly all of the 1,427 coins, dating from 1847 to 1894, are in uncirculated, mint condition
LOS ANGELES — A California couple out walking their dog on their stumbled across a modern-day bonanza: US$10-million in rare, mint-condition gold coins buried in the shadow of an old tree.
Nearly all of the 1,427 coins, dating from 1847 to 1894, are in uncirculated, mint condition, said David Hall, co-founder of Professional Coin Grading Service of Santa Ana, which recently authenticated them. Although the face value of the gold pieces only adds up to about $27,000, some of them are so rare that coin experts say they could fetch nearly US$1-million apiece.
“I don’t like to say once-in-a-lifetime for anything, but you don’t get an opportunity to handle this kind of material, a treasure like this, ever,” said veteran numismatist Don Kagin, who is representing the finders. “It’s like they found the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.”
Kagin, whose family has been in the rare-coin business for 81 years, would say little about the couple other than that they are husband and wife, are middle-aged and have lived for several years on the rural property where the coins were found. They have no idea who put them there, he said.
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Kagin and McCarthy would say little about the couple’s property or its ownership history, other than it’s in a sprawling hilly area of Gold Country, as the region that was the site of the 1849 Gold Rush is known. The coins were found along a path the couple had walked for years. On the day they found them last spring, the woman had bent over to examine an old rusty can that erosion had caused to pop slightly out of the ground.
“Don’t be above bending over to check on a rusty can,” he said she told him.
http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/02/25/couple-takes-dog-for-walk-finds-real-life-pot-of-gold-at-the-end-of-the-rainbow-10-million-in-buried-coins/
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If they own the land, they own any "mineral rights." 
Except in the very unlikely event they bought they property without them.
I have no idea whether this technically falls under the category of mineral rights. But this isn't like an underwater situation where the land is publicly owned (or in international waters). These people owned their land, so other people can't come forward and claim they have a right to what was found on it, buried hundreds of years ago.
reason for the smiley...
maybe I should have used 
or 
instead
...especially the tongue sticking out part. 
I am impressed. They are two of the very biggest names in US numismatics 
for J. H. Cline. I don't think he wears purple suits, though
Although I kind of doubt that "DFW" will ring a bell with her 
in her best Zsa Zsa accent
http://www.news.com.au/world/australian-murray-cox-exposes-jim-sanders-washington-nugget-as-being-from-down-under/story-e6frfkyi-1226090145359
He was involved in promoting another fantastic tale not long ago that turned out to be a fraud.
of banditry for another 40+ years. This is his horde. 
Amazing find!
That was good.
Yeah, my dogs have turned up a lot of dirt in the yard, but nothing there to "take to the bank."
The other claimant is pretty scary.
They just wouldn't have shared it with their humans-in-waiting. 
They could have just unearthed one of the coin stashes buried by the K.G.C.
that they were stashing during the civil war in order to rebuild the confederacy.
Some say that the KGC is alive and well and will do anything to get their gold back.
Be warned !
In 1895, two outlaws stole $50,000 in gold coins from a Wells Fargo shipment in a Union Pacific RR train robbery and buried the cache in the area of a hobo jungle just outside Washington. A hobo named John Harmons witnessed the burial, dug it up and took $5,000 from the sacks, reburying the rest a short distance away. Harmons went on a long drinking spree and when he returned for more money, he was unable to relocate the burial site and the $45,000 was never recovered.
In 1894, a worker at the San Francisco mint made off with 290 pounds of gold and buried it near Shelter Cover. He was captured and sent to prison for his crime, but refused to reveal the exact location of the loot. It was never found.
$50,000 was stolen in a robbery of a Southern Pacific Overland Express robbery in 1894 out of Sacramento. One half of this hoard was buried near Sheep Camp, a hobo jungle that was close to the city at the time of the robbery. It was yet to be recovered.
There are stories that say an Indian buried a sack of gold coins in the vicinity of Goat Rock which has never been recovered.
http://www.losttreasureusa.com/StateTreasures/StateTreasuresCALIFORNIA.htm
are just sore that they weren't the ones to find this stash
And that they have fun at the auction. Just stay away from people that look like James Mason, Martin Landau, Eva Marie Saint, and Cary Grant
of California's Gold!
