A Kentucky farmer stumbled on one of the biggest troves of Civil War gold coins ever found, fuelling the dreams of treasure ...

By Chris Cameron A Civil War-era treasure of more than 700 gold coins was unearthed in a Kentucky ... It is unclear how he found the gold and whether he had suspected that the treasure was buried ...

He secured a 'permission' to search farmland near his home in Buckinghamshire, even though he was told nothing of ...

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An unidentified man found a treasure trove of gold coins in a Kentucky cornfield. The coins, which were minted before or during the Civil War, could be worth more than $1 million. Urban legends ...

Now, a Civil War coin hoard ... buried $80,000 in gold coins somewhere on his Lexington farm but died before he was able to retrieve the cache. The money has never been found.

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Hundreds of Civil War-era gold coins, called the Great Kentucky Hoard, were found in a cornfield. Bill Gale, GovMint founder and president, said in a news release. A gold coin treasure trove ...

During the Civil War, Kentucky sat on the border of both ... However, these are not the only coins that have been found on people’s property recently. Last month, a California man found 1 ...

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