Reelfoot Relics
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Large cents out west? That would be a tall tale for sure.
A cache recovery posse-hunt story
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No pictures but you sound trustworthy enough so I'll give you the dinger. 
Excellent story!!
Silverhorse65
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Just curious Tom, what do you suppose was the total value of the cache at the time you found it?
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Hey there silver horse65, that's a good question. And it would also depend on the spot market value of gold at that time, versus now. I didn't get the exact count of the coins (other than his saying 100 -ish). And they were all different sizes
So the bottom line is : I dunno
CarsonChris
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There is a house in Carson City(The location they filmed the Shootist) where the owner supposedly buried gold and silver coins. They've crawled all over that yard detecting but haven't found the cache.
CallMeGrey
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Sounds like one of "THOSE" stories that get bigger as they are re-told.
CarsonChris
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I believe it. The current owners are the children of the one that buried it. I've talked to them. Quirky family and their dad was very quirky according to the kids. The family owns a lot of Carson City.
Have you had the opportunity to check the property yourself?
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Anything is possible, but : To be fair (and to be in keeping my my kill-joy namesake ) : I've also gone on a few commissioned posse-hunts in my 45 yrs. of md'ing, where the following scenario plays out :
A family (the next of kin, etc...) will spin a story of how certain they are of a buried treasure. And, at first blush, who can argue with it, eh ? I mean, shucks, they're the children of said-individual, eh ? And there's anecdotal clues that are salacious, eh ? And at this point it's easy to overlook (and simply not hear) anything that could hint otherwise.
But in one such instance, one of the children casually mentioned that a year or so before their father's death, he had inexplicably bought a brand-new car for his favorite grand-daughter's high school graduation present. And when pressing that daughter carefully, it dawned on her that ... she never really gave thought to where her father had gotten that $$ from. I said : "Isn't it possible that he fetched his cache, cashed in his silver (or gold or whatever it was) to buy that ? " To which she came to the realization that ... yes ..... that makes sense.
Thus it really WASN'T necessarily a case of "unaccounted for wealth". And there WAS INDEED things (purchases before death) that could have been the case. Still though, the family was convinced dad buried stuff under the house crawl space. So I went down and detected for an hour, on my belly, crawling around. Found an empty metal container buried just a few inches deep. Had nothing but a few receipts in it, but nothing of value. We all agreed that this must have been the stash that they suspected . But that : It was retrieved and used before their dad's death.
Point of this ^ ^ story being, that at first blush (without hard- kill-joy-question scrutiny), I would have been swept up in the initial treasure-frenzy certainty. It's not just us md'rs and TH'rs that are prone to this , it's also the persons who opine of treasure on their land. They too are only hearing (and subconsciously embellishing) the salacious positive portions. And subconsciously dismissing and forgetting the amending & corrective & "more plausible explanation" portions.
Not that I wouldn't still do commissioned hunts. But just saying : Not every cache story is rock-solid.
