Saddle Ridge Hoard
Saddle Ridge Hoard: still unexplained.
$10M (1,427 coins)
A couple, a dog, an evening walk on their own land, and a rusted can breaking the surface of a path they had worn for years. Inside: gold. They came back with hand tools and raised eight cans, 1,427 coins, ten million dollars struck between 1847 and 1894. Who buried a fortune on that hillside, and why no one ever returned for it, has never been answered. They had walked past it a thousand times. So, perhaps, have you.
- A California couple out walking their dog in 2013 spotted the rusted lip of an old can poking from the ground. It was full of gold coins, and seven more cans nearby brought the total to about 1,400, the richest buried coin hoard ever found in the United States.
What remains open
- No period map of the site has surfaced.
- No contemporary press coverage has been found.
No documentary claim is yet established. The account rests on tradition.
- No period map of the site has surfaced.
- No contemporary press coverage has been found.
No documentary or visual exhibits have been located yet. The trail below and the open leads are where this dossier grows next — every exhibit that enters here carries a source.
- Search Library of Congress + DPLA (IIIF) for period cartography of the site.
- Run Chronicling America for dated newspaper mentions.
- Query NARA for archival records tied to the site.
Have a source, a map, or a clipping? Add a lead and it enters the record with its citation.
- Saddle Ridge Hoard · archive record · tertiary · encyclopedia
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