Saddle Ridge Hoard
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The Saddle Ridge Hoard is the name given to a hoard of 1,427 gold coins unearthed in Northern California in 2013. The face value of the coins totaled $27,980, but was assessed to be worth $10 million.
Gold coins in situ
Rusted can of gold coins as found at discovery site in February 2013
Trierer Goldmuenzenschatz
A hoard of Iron Age coins from Beverly
Knights of the Golden Circle
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The Knights of the Golden Circle was a secret society founded in 1854 by American George W. L. Bickley. Its objective was initially to expand the United States into Latin America, adding slave states
Saddle Ridge Hoard
…by Black Bart, who was known for robbing stagecoaches. A theory has also been advanced that the hoard was part of a treasure supposedly hidden by the Knights of the Golden Circle, to be used to fund a second Civil War. The predominant theory attributes the cache to an unknown individual who chose to bury the coins rather than…
Seal of the president of the Knights of the Golden Circle, National Archives
An alleged secret history of the Knights of the Golden Circle published in 1863