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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SPP Ottawa, post: 1879746, member: 39508&quot;]Not a prospectors stash... a miner&#039;s stash, and a successful miner at that!! The California gold rush in the Sierra Nevada started in 1848, and that was the main reason these coins were minted in the first place (Double Eagles were authorized to be minted in 1849). British Columbia tried to issue $10 and $20 gold coins in 1862, due to the Cariboo gold rush, prior to confederation. The $5 and $10 coins for Canada (1912-1914) were also made due to the amount of raw gold prospectors and miners were exchanging with the banks at the time.</p><p><br /></p><p>It would be interesting to try and cross-reference the former owners of the nearby mining claims from the later dates that are on the coins in the hoard... if someone really cared enough to really want to know... given how often claims were sold, or leased to others to work the claims, or lapsed claims reclaimed, I suspect the list is long...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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