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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Owle, post: 1880272, member: 22004&quot;]&quot;Don Kagin, the Tiburon coin dealer and rare-coins author who is shepherding the sale of the hoard for the couple who discovered it in their Gold Country back yard, said the mint theory is just one of hundreds popping up – from people claiming their great-grandfathers buried it to stories of Black Bart or other bandits hiding their stash. Some say the coins were found in Jackson, among other cities – but Kagin said they are all wrong, and the couple are keeping their identity secret.</p><p><br /></p><p>“&#039;If anybody wants to send us a list of missing coins with some specifics, we’ll be happy to help them out,” Kagin said. “But not a single theory that has come to us indicates this hoard came from anything other than a single person who didn’t trust banks. The attorneys of the owners of the coins thoroughly searched property records and researched this, and the only thing they could determine is that whoever buried the coins might have been in the mining industry.&#039;”<a href="http://blog.sfgate.com/stienstra/2014/03/04/gold-coin-update-heist-explanation-unlikely/#21188101=0" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://blog.sfgate.com/stienstra/2014/03/04/gold-coin-update-heist-explanation-unlikely/#21188101=0" rel="nofollow">http://blog.sfgate.com/stienstra/2014/03/04/gold-coin-update-heist-explanation-unlikely/#21188101=0</a></p><p><br /></p><p>What do you think the chance that anyone could be successful in presenting a missing gold coin inventory list to Kagin&#039;s that he is going to say &quot;Eurika!&nbsp; I think we have a winner!&quot;?&nbsp; </p><p>Oh, and remember the large Australian gold nugget that Kagin tried to auction off as the largest California nugget ever found?</p><p><a href="http://artdaily.com/news/48881/Duped--Big-California-Gold-Nugget-Sold-at-Auction-is-Actually-Australian-and-Worth-Less-#.UxsSivldU8Q" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://artdaily.com/news/48881/Duped--Big-California-Gold-Nugget-Sold-at-Auction-is-Actually-Australian-and-Worth-Less-#.UxsSivldU8Q" rel="nofollow">http://artdaily.com/news/48881/Duped--Big-California-Gold-Nugget-Sold-at-Auction-is-Actually-Australian-and-Worth-Less-#.UxsSivldU8Q</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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