| Coin Collecting and Confederate Gold | | | | States officially ended and Texas once again |
| Jason Whitney, the President of First Fidelity | | | | became a part of the union. During those war |
| Reserve finds the hobby of coin collecting uniquely | | | | years many stories were told of hidden treasures |
| interwoven into the history of America. Beaumont | | | | of gold and silver coins buried by military and |
| Texas the home of First Fidelity Reserve is | | | | government entities. |
| steeped in exciting history dating back before the | | | | In one of them…a secret, subversive |
| Civil War. Texas was in fact one of the last state | | | | Confederate group, the Knights of the Golden |
| to declare its secession before Lincoln took office | | | | Circle, hid fortunes in ill-gotten Confederate gold to |
| on March 4, 1861. About four years later when | | | | finance a second Civil War. Cryptic clues are said |
| General Robert E. Lee surrendered at | | | | to lead to coin caches. |
| Appomattox in, 1865, the War Between the | | | | |