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20 November 2008

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Morgan silver dollar coin cache found in backyard - Jon Mark Beilue, Amarillo.com

The Case of the Missing 300 Silver Dollars, or What In The World Is Something Like That Doing In A Place Like This, likely will never be solved. That they were actually uncovered is astonishing enough, but to find out why 300 Morgan silver dollars from 1887 in mint condition were under a foot of hardened soil on former Amarillo Mayor Jerry Hodge’s property, well, let your imagination be your guide.

Our story begins June 11. Plumbers were digging a trench to run utilities for a pool house and swimming pool on property Hodge had purchased adjacent to his home on Oldham Circle in Amarillo.

Read entire article: Morgan silver dollar coin cache found in backyard - Jon Mark Beilue, Amarillo.com

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