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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;sshafer11, post: 2030957, member: 67540&quot;]I&#039;m actually the one that did the research for that show <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. I&#039;m glad you liked it, and firstly thank you for being a fan of the show!</p><p><br /></p><p>Unfortunately why the hoard came to light (and indeed even the exact time frame it was buried..and where) is a bit of a grey area as Matt mentioned</p><p>in the show. This hoard was not documented like the hoards of our time. Q David Bowers noted based on an old numismatic journal that the Harmonists actually hid the coins in the vault when John Hunt Morgan was on his great raid of 1863. Although he never made it to Pennsylvania, he did cut all the way from Kentucky to east Ohio. This is plausible explanation, but I don&#039;t think the harmonists ever really forgot about the hoard.</p><p><br /></p><p>There were still harmonists around in the 1870s and I believe they simply kept the coins in the vault because that was what they had always done, and prior to the 1870s hoarding of all types of change was very very common. Basically after 1837 it was one economic crisis after another until after the Civil War. They were an egalitarian society, they didn&#039;t need to spend the coins. Hassletine (the man who purchased the hoard) was a big coin collector in his time. He was actually the same guy who tracked down and purchased the original confederate cent die, but that&#039;s another story. Hassletine must have caught wind of the hoard and purchased it through the society. It wasn&#039;t a big &quot;discovery&quot; and nor was there anything particularly rare in it (for the era at least!).</p><p><br /></p><p>Hopefully that helps clarify. I think the Economite hoard is a fascinating story, and I&#039;m really glad we were able to discuss it in episode 87. I wish there was more info I could give you but it is challenging to find a lot of information about it, because as I mentioned, it just wasn&#039;t a big deal in its own time.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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