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<p>[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 3130495, member: 10461"]Well, so there you have it, folks. The much-belabored story of the Orangeburg Hoard. Dragged out into Thursday morning when it should have been just a short series of a few posts on the weekend. What can I say? I was having fun with it, rough-hewn though it is.</p><p><br /></p><p>Which brings us to the...</p><p><br /></p><p><b><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #336600">EPILOGUE</span></font></font></b></p><p><b><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #336600"><br /></span></font></font></b></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #336600">This is a work of fiction, but there is some<i> tiny </i>basis of fact (or at least real-world hearsay) that planted the seed of this story in my imagination after I first heard about it 24 years ago.</span></font></font></p><ul> <li><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #336600">In 1994, an Asheville, North Carolina coin dealer told me the story of a gold coin hoard that had been found.</span></font></font></li> <li><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #336600">This hoard was supposedly found in the vicinity of Orangeburg, South Carolina around 1989, in the wake of the devastation caused by Hurricane Hugo.</span></font></font></li> <li><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #336600">The hoard supposedly contained a number of Charlotte and Dahlonega gold coins in high grades like AU and even Mint State.</span></font></font></li> <li><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #336600">No details were given about the quantity of coins in the hoard, nor was there any information about their specific dates and mintmarks.</span></font></font></li> <li><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #336600">The details were mostly lacking because the buyers did not want any publicity, as it was apparently feared that the property owner might object if he saw the price of the coins multiplied greatly after they were resold. But the property owner was of course handsomely compensated.</span></font></font></li> <li><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #336600">The dealer who told me the story apparently had some inside knowledge of the sale of some of the coins, though he was not necessarily involved in any of those transactions.</span></font></font></li> <li><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #336600">If I remember correctly, the hoard was just being sold for the (second?) time, and perhaps being dispersed - quietly - at the time I heard about it in 1994.</span></font></font></li> </ul><p>And that's about it, really.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>How would <i>you</i> imagine the Orangeburg Hoard? </b></p><p><br /></p><p>What dates and types would you put in that strongbox?</p><p><br /></p><p>It's fun to daydream about, isn't it? <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, thanks for reading all of this. I had fun with it, as you can probably tell.</p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">~RWS/"LM"</font></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 3130495, member: 10461"]Well, so there you have it, folks. The much-belabored story of the Orangeburg Hoard. Dragged out into Thursday morning when it should have been just a short series of a few posts on the weekend. What can I say? I was having fun with it, rough-hewn though it is. Which brings us to the... [B][FONT=Georgia][SIZE=5][COLOR=#336600]EPILOGUE [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/B] [FONT=Georgia][SIZE=5][COLOR=#336600]This is a work of fiction, but there is some[I] tiny [/I]basis of fact (or at least real-world hearsay) that planted the seed of this story in my imagination after I first heard about it 24 years ago.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [LIST] [*][FONT=Georgia][SIZE=5][COLOR=#336600]In 1994, an Asheville, North Carolina coin dealer told me the story of a gold coin hoard that had been found.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [*][FONT=Georgia][SIZE=5][COLOR=#336600]This hoard was supposedly found in the vicinity of Orangeburg, South Carolina around 1989, in the wake of the devastation caused by Hurricane Hugo.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [*][FONT=Georgia][SIZE=5][COLOR=#336600]The hoard supposedly contained a number of Charlotte and Dahlonega gold coins in high grades like AU and even Mint State.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [*][FONT=Georgia][SIZE=5][COLOR=#336600]No details were given about the quantity of coins in the hoard, nor was there any information about their specific dates and mintmarks.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [*][FONT=Georgia][SIZE=5][COLOR=#336600]The details were mostly lacking because the buyers did not want any publicity, as it was apparently feared that the property owner might object if he saw the price of the coins multiplied greatly after they were resold. But the property owner was of course handsomely compensated.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [*][FONT=Georgia][SIZE=5][COLOR=#336600]The dealer who told me the story apparently had some inside knowledge of the sale of some of the coins, though he was not necessarily involved in any of those transactions.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [*][FONT=Georgia][SIZE=5][COLOR=#336600]If I remember correctly, the hoard was just being sold for the (second?) time, and perhaps being dispersed - quietly - at the time I heard about it in 1994.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [/LIST] And that's about it, really. [B]How would [I]you[/I] imagine the Orangeburg Hoard? [/B] What dates and types would you put in that strongbox? It's fun to daydream about, isn't it? :) Anyway, thanks for reading all of this. I had fun with it, as you can probably tell. [FONT=Georgia][SIZE=5]~RWS/"LM"[/SIZE][/FONT][/QUOTE]
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