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Originally Posted by barrysloate
If I made a find like that, I wouldn't tell anyone and just sell a few at a time, making sure I stayed under the radar. Why did these people go public with it?
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A couple of the coins might go for more than a million each at auction. Kind of hard to stay under the radar with items like that.
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Originally Posted by edjs
Because these coins were possibly stolen from the US mint in San Francisco, so they still belong to the Government.
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Hooray for social media! A spokesperson for the Mint says they have no records of such a theft. (It's possible those records were destroyed in the 1906 earthquake.) And, as the article says, the items in the hoard don't match up with what was supposedly stolen. A "mint-sealed bag" would have contained all newly-minted coins. I've owned both mint-sealed bags of coins and coins in a bag that came from the mint. Not the same thing.
Bill