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The Redfield Hoard was LaVere Redfield's collection of 407,000 silver Morgan and Peace dollars. The hoard was discovered in Reno, Nevada , at the home of LaVere Redfield after his death in 1974. Redfield was burglarized in 1952 and at that time he had already amassed a hoard of 270,000 silver dollars.
Only one Carson City marked coin was found in the hoard of 135,000 silver dollars. Ted Binion's estate also said that an unknown number of double eagle $20 gold pieces, a collection of antique coins and currency from the Civil War era were also missing. [10] The silver from the hoard was evidence in the criminal proceedings.
The silver hoard consisted of two parts with a total weight of 67 kg (148 lb) before conservation and consisted of, among other things, 14,295 coins most of which were Islamic from other countries. A third deposition containing over 20 kg (44 lb) of bronze scrap-metal was also found.
A hoard of Norman-era silver coins unearthed five years ago in southwestern England has become Britain’s most valuable treasure find ever, after it was bought for £4.3 million ($5.6 million) by ...
The hoard consists of 1368 gold and silver coins dated to the Iron Age and Romano-British periods. [1] The earliest coin in the hoard is a silver Roman Republican denarius minted in 157 BC, while the latest is an early imperial denarius of Nero minted in AD 55.
A hoard of coins dating back to the 11th century has been found at the site of a future nuclear power station. Oxford Cotswold Archaeology discovered a cloth package containing 321 silver coins in ...