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- 01The coins were in near-mint condition, suggesting they were buried quickly and never circulated — someone's emergency fund, sealed and forgotten.
- 02One 1866-S No Motto $20 gold piece in the hoard was worth $1 million alone due to its extreme rarity.
- 03The couple, who kept their names private, found the cans buried in a gold rush–era mining region of the Sierra Nevada foothills.