I don't doubt the story in a general way; somebody didn't trust banks back in the mid-1890s (and it is wise for the present-day finders and Mr. Kagan not to be too specific with the exact details of this find). But the finders will get ripped to shreds by tax collectors and lawyers. Probably five hundred copies of Bowers' specialized "Redbook" on Gold Twenties have been sold to tax agencies, judges and lawyers in the last week. For eighty percent of the holders, a law license in the USA In 2014 is a license to slowly starve, albeit in modest respectability.

The first and foremost rule of this type of thing is "STFU"!!! Nobody believes in treasure, and this one wasn't bothering anybody until the finders opened their stupid, unlucky yaps. They could have quietly sold-off ten or twenty of the coins every year, forever, and nobody would have been the wiser.

Oly