Pot of “Bloody Bill” Anderson’s Gold Found at Yancey Inn – 1912


I ran across this story while researching William C. “Bloody Bill” Anderson recently. Today, the value of the gold coins found in 1912 would be at least $600,000 in gold value alone. That’s using the minimum estimated value ($10,000) of it in 1912 and isn’t counting the coins’ numismatic value so it’s safe to say that the value of those coins today would be well in excess of a million dollars and that’s a very conservative estimate. Bill Anderson was a member of the…

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