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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Owle, post: 1878231, member: 22004&quot;]There are a number of questions that occur to me on this theory of the theft from the SF mint, as there were a number of such thefts.&nbsp; Suspicion fell heavily on Dimmick and he was sentenced to hard labor for the heist, whereas Cole, his superior seems to have been very eager to get Dimmick to be pinned with the $30K robbery.&nbsp; Dimmick didn&#039;t die until 1930, why didn&#039;t he go back to Auburn, CA (a probably gold country site of the cache) after he got out of prison?&nbsp; Cole died around 1906, but had been ailing so if he had been involved in the thefts, he may not have physically been able to retrieve the loot later.&nbsp; It is a long way from SF to Auburn too.&nbsp; Why there?</p><p><br /></p><p>How easy or hard was it to get nice high mintstate $20s from the SF mint or banks?&nbsp; Did you have to know a bank manager to get the rare or high graded pieces?&nbsp; What is the probability that someone who was just looking for $20 gold pieces as money, stored where they were free from bank troubles, would have stored so many high grade and rare issues?&nbsp; Does the modus operandi (MO) in evidence here fit stolen property or private owners storing money?&nbsp; How many examples are there of similar hoards stored in similar fashion by contemporaries?&nbsp; Has accurate dating of the metal storage cans been done?&nbsp; Did the lawyers and researchers advising the hoard couple and Kagin&#039;s thoroughly research land deeds to ascertain any likely previous owner of the land rich enough to have put their wealth on the treasure trove land?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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