Kicker: Treasure in a field

NICK EICHER, HOST: A man in Kentucky had a hunch and so he started digging on his property one day.

KENTUCKY MAN: This is the most insane thing ever. Those are all $1 gold coins, $20 gold coins, $10 gold coins.

He found hundreds of them, coins from the Civil War era. Most are gold, some are silver, all dating between 1840 and 1863.

KENTUCKY MAN: And look I’m still diggin’ ‘em out. There’s one, two, three, four, five, six, six more.

Dubbed the “Great Kentucky Hoard,” the anonymous man filmed his discovery, finding coins valued at roughly $1,000, some of them worth even more, much more.

Finding these lost coins is competitive business. So you can probably appreciate the anonymity of the man who found it.

But as in the parable of the lost coin, you can’t help but rejoice publicly, even if it’s just a matter of posting a video to YouTube.

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