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Message:: [QUOTE="GoldFinger1969, post: 6454015, member: 73489"]Great post....I guess technically if someone gets a few people in Europe to part with long-held Liberty DEs (or Saints) that could be considered a "hoard" but to me hoard implies:  (1) a pretty large number of coins, at least a few dozen and (2) all the coins in 1 location. I guess  the word "hoard" is being used more broadly.  Which is OK I guess....we're not dealing in scientific terminology here.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Obviously, the Wells Fargo hoard is a classic -- 19,900 coins all at the same location.  Many of the 1929-32 Saint rarities had "mini-hoards" of a few coins to a dozen or so come over in drips-and-drabs over the years/decades. I read somewhere -- and now I can't remember where, I gotta scour and go look (should have cut-and-pasted) -- about a FAKE hoard that was announced in the U.K. for Saints that Walter Breen (?) and some others announced and it turned out to be false.  Can't remember if I saw it on the Internet, from Bower's GUIDE BOOK, or from some catalogs I've been reading. Like I said, should have noted it in my Saints blog.  Damn.....<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie4" alt=":mad:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]