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Could Gold Coins Found In Calif. Have Vancouver Connection?

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 Posted 04/01/2014  12:42 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add bigmike7801 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
My company just ran the below story that has to do with the gold coins recently found in California.

http://www.columbian.com/news/2014/...couver-link/

Have any thoughts on this?
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 Posted 04/01/2014  1:09 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add awallin01 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I'm unsure about this, is this a case of making the facts fit the theory? Involving another government related theft, what if they were simply someones stash of gold hidden away-to prevent them being taken from the owner, during the executive order 6102. Then the owner died during that time or the war, and they were lost until recently. It's easy to fit facts to a theory, definitive evidence should be found in my opinion. The two claims/theories may be right, but these 'stolen' coins may well still be hidden elsewhere. I say let the finders be the keepers, enough tax will circulate the economy from sales anyway. Just my opinion.

Edited due to my inability to construct sentences, sometimes my mind is racing ahead of my hands.
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04/01/2014 3:26 pm
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I see it as nothing more than baseless speculation. That heist involved silver coins as well but no silver was found in California. That heist took place in 1889 while there were a number of coins from the 1890s found in the California hoard. Most importantly, the ordinal distribution of the California coins negates any claim that it is tied to specific bank robbery of heist. The only way you are going to accumulate 50 years of dates and have them loaded in the cans in sequential order is to accumulate them over several decades.
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I see it as nothing more than "There was a gold shipment stolen that was never recovered, so this must be it." with nothing solid to tie the two together.
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I see it as nothing more than baseless speculation.


In an other word, "garbage."
Note to self, this is a " Coin Community Family." no bad descriptive words.
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 Posted 04/01/2014  4:46 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add thq to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I think it's a wool-gathering expedition by someone who needed to publish something. He has plenty of facts, that's for sure. Too bad they're completely irrelevant.
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I liked learning about that bit of history but I don't see any reason to connect it to the California gold hoard other than speculation and "what if"s. overall an interesting read
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interesting history. could be if that entire story is accurate and vetted out. there are many stories and it really does not matter, bless their great fortune.
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