Who Didn't See This Coming
To: Uncle Chip
Yep, I had a feeling something like this might happen. Hopefully the folks are well-represented and can stand up to any potential grab by the state/feds that might be coming.
2 posted on
02/26/2014 9:36:32 PM PST by
DemforBush
(A Repo Man is *always* intense.)
To: Uncle Chip
Apparently the two people who found the coins didn’t.
3 posted on
02/26/2014 9:38:24 PM PST by
Michael.SF.
(I never thought anyone could make Jimmy Carter look good in comparison.)
To: Uncle Chip
4 posted on
02/26/2014 9:42:22 PM PST by
Lurkina.n.Learnin
(This is not just stupid, we're talking Democrat stupid here.)
To: Uncle Chip
I didn’t. Finders keepers. But then I would have given serious thought to not telling a soul about what I found, too.
5 posted on
02/26/2014 9:43:10 PM PST by
bigbob
(The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
To: Uncle Chip
There is something to be said about our country boy living. “ Shoot, shovel, and shut up.”
To: Uncle Chip
Does anyone besides me have a problem with the following statement? I can’t make the math work right for some reason-
“There is certainly compelling evidence to link the two bounties. According to 1901 reports, 500 coins were stolen by Dimmick - only 73 coins less than the 1,427 discovered at Saddle Ridge.”
9 posted on
02/26/2014 9:47:57 PM PST by
matthew fuller
(I don't think Obama is subhuman.)
To: Uncle Chip
10 posted on
02/26/2014 9:48:26 PM PST by
upchuck
(South Carolina Representative Trey Gowdy for Speaker of the House!!!)
To: Uncle Chip
16 posted on
02/26/2014 9:57:16 PM PST by
BunnySlippers
(I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
To: Uncle Chip
If the coins are the ones stolen by Dimmick, why did’nt he come back for the coins after he had served his nine years?
19 posted on
02/26/2014 10:03:44 PM PST by
joshua c
(Please dont feed the liberals)
To: Uncle Chip
21 posted on
02/26/2014 10:09:19 PM PST by
DesertRhino
(I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
To: Uncle Chip
Agreed.
But there’s a few problems with this SF Mint “theft” theory:
1. The coins would all have to have “S” mint marks, which
is not the case here.
2. The dates on these coins are all decades older than
the time period in which the putative thief worked
at the mint.
3. The dates would likely have all been duplicates from
just a few years, which is not the case with the
discovered cache.
22 posted on
02/26/2014 10:15:25 PM PST by
catnipman
(Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
To: Uncle Chip
In another article I recall reading how the coins had been put in the cans roughly by date, oldest on the bottom of one can, getting younger toward the top, then the next can having slightly younger on the bottom, with youngest coins in that can on top, and continuing in the third can to the youngest coins. There were different mints and denominations represented, not just double eagles.
Sounds like someone saved the coins over a period of years, not a grab of double eagles from the same mint at the same time.
Nice try, but I think these folks are entitled to their find.
25 posted on
02/26/2014 10:25:13 PM PST by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: Uncle Chip
I smell government sniffing for lost gold with no claim.
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