Where Did They Come From?
“You get a lot of hoards in Europe—coins buried for hundreds or thousands of years,” says Mudd, “but they’re less common in the U.S. Our history isn’t that long, and for most of the time we’ve had banks, so people have tended to put their money there.”
So that leaves only a few likely explanations for the “Saddle Ridge Hoard,” as the collection has come to be known.