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Rare gold coins found buried in Kentucky cornfield worth millions: 'In line with winning the lottery'
Fox NewsA cache of more than 800 Civil War-era gold coins were recently unearthed in a Kentucky cornfield — a treasure worth millions that experts are calling one of the greatest finds of the 21st century.
"It's hard to put this in context because there are so few instances of coins of this nature with this level of rarity being found in the ground in the United States," Andrew Salzberg, executive vice president of the Numismatic Guaranty Company’s (NGC) Certified Collectibles Group, told Fox News Digital.
NGC, a third-party grading service for coins, tokens and medals based in Sarasota, Florida, certified the coins — dubbed the "Great Kentucky Hoard" — and valued them at more than $2 million.
"Most of them are gold dollars, which in and of themselves are really interesting pieces of numismatic history," Salzberg said.
In addition, he added, there were some $20 gold pieces — "a couple of which were dated 1863 and graded MS 64, which is the highest grade that has ever been graded," he said.
The finder of the coins and the exact location of the apparent buried treasure remain a mystery as of now, as those aware are honoring the request to keep names of the people who found the coins and the names of the cornfield anonymous.
This is due to the value of the discovery, the security and the risk of others who desire to treasure hunt themselves, Fox News Digital has been told.
Clues about the discovery itself are documented in a 20-second YouTube video.
A man is shown narrating as he pulls piles of coins from the soil.
"This is the most insane thing ever," the man said in the video, in part.
"Those are $1 gold coins, $20 gold coins, $10 gold coins. And look, I’m still digging them out."
Jeff Garrett, owner of Mid-American Rare Coin Gallery in Lexington, Kentucky, was the recipient of an email from the anonymous discoverer.
"Someone wanted me to look at an 1863 Double Eagle, which is a very rare coin," Garrett told Fox News Digital.
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Rare gold coins found buried in Kentucky cornfield worth millions: 'In line with winning the lottery' | Fox News
Civil War-era gold coins were recently found in a Kentucky cornfield and listed for sale on govmint.com before being valued at $2 million. The coins were named the "Great Kentucky Hoard."
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