What constitutes a cashe, quantity, rarity of the hoard, does a cashe have to be coins, gold or silver or gems.
This is my take on cashes....
Buried in the ground....
I'll limit my area to the New England and East Coast seeings it was the first to be populated.
EVERY town has cashes buried, colonial, post colonial, late 1830s depression caused a lot of cashes to be buried. Lets not forget the Civil War and depression of the 20s era and any time though out our history that someone decided to bury their stash. In the late 1700s and early 1800s when it was common to bury your stash because of the lack of banks, in the ground it went. Interestingly, the late 1700s and early 1800s the black plague and other diseases swept through the US. and the world. Every family was effected, children, adults, no discrimination. It wasn't uncommon for a family to loose both parents to the plague and there goes the secret to the location of SOME cashes, not all.
I guess a cashe could be anything from a handful of coins to the great hoard of the Harmony Society found in PA. to the recent gold cashe that was found in the Calf. gold mining district.
This is my story and I'm sticking to it
and I believe that I'm pretty accurate on my assessment.
I haven't found a cahes myself but I don't count it out...
I live in the area that was Vermont's first settled area, southeastern Vt. along the Conn. River I live about 6 miles from the river and 50 yards out my front door is the site of the second sawmill to be established in Vt. "1761"
I live in an area that could easily produce a cashe and I'll be damned if I ever broadcast that I found one.