Treasure!

[Furtherman]

Lucky Bastards.

15th-century shipwreck laden with treasure found (http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/05/01/Namibia.shipwreck.ap/index.html)

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The ship was laden with tons of copper ingots, elephant tusks, gold coins -- and cannons to fend off pirates lurking off Africa some five centuries ago.

Spanish gold coins, Portuguese silver coins minted in the late 1400s or early 1500s were found, as well as dividers used for measuring distance on a map during navigation.

The reverse of the some of the gold coins depicts Ferdinand and Isabella, two Spanish monarchs of the time.

[Furtherman]

Buried Box Yields Texas Treasures After Hurricane (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/01/21/ap/strange/main4743067.shtml)

A contractor helping clear debris from Hurricane Ike is looking for the owner of an ammunition box he found buried in sand that contained keepsakes, including an 1863 Confederate $50 bill, war medals and diamond earrings.

[boosterp]

Buried Box Yields Texas Treasures After Hurricane (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/01/21/ap/strange/main4743067.shtml)

I saw this and it is such a cool story for beaten down Galveston, with all the bad news about lost jobs and stuff coming from there it is nice to hear something positive.

[Furtherman]

Deep-sea explorers who found $500 million in sunken treasure two years ago say they have discovered another prized shipwreck: A legendary British man-of-war that sank in the English Channel 264 years ago. (http://www.physorg.com/news152724092.html)

The company's research indicates the HMS Victory was carrying 4 tons of gold coins.

[Furtherman]

The beep that made me leap: Housewife discovers £250,000 gold treasure after seven years of hunting with a metal detector. (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1195298/The-beep-leap-Housewife-discovers-250-000-gold-treasure-seven-years-hunting.html)

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/06/24/article-1195298-0577C06D000005DC-23_233x279.jpg

[Furtherman]

6 Lost Treasures Waiting To Be Found (http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/33876)

If you haven’t found your own copy of the Declaration of Independence or a few thousand Ancient Roman coins, let me give you a push in the right direction with these tales of lost treasures that are just waiting for you to find them.

[Furtherman]

Huge Anglo-Saxon Treasure Found By Amateur (http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/279686)

An unemployed amateur treasure hunter has unearthed what is possibly the largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon treasure ever found, British archaeologists say. The discovery could change the way historians view the Dark Ages in Britain, one said.

Amateur archaeologist, Terry Herbert (55) found the hoard with a metal detector two months ago on a friend’s farm in western England. He spent five days scouring the field before realising he needed help from experts, who then took over the work. Herbert said making the discovery was ”more fun than winning the lottery.” He added:
I was going to bed and in my sleep I was seeing gold items.
The hoard was officially declared as treasure by a coroner and will be valued by experts, and then offered for sale to a museum. The money will be split 50-50 between Herbert and the farmer and is said to be ”a seven-figure sum.”

[A.J.]

I wonder in ancient countries like Britain just how much shit like that is just lying around like that. You usually see stories like this in Italy, Greece and Israel.

[Chigworthy]

Think how jealous all those pervy old men wearing "roomy" shorts while they metal detect the beach parking lot are.

[Furtherman]

I wonder in ancient countries like Britain just how much shit like that is just lying around like that. You usually see stories like this in Italy, Greece and Israel.

And Scotland!

Iron Age treasure haul uncovered in Stirling field
Metal-detecting enthusiast digs up 2,000 year old neckbands thought to be worth around £1 million. (http://news.stv.tv/scotland/134517-iron-age-trasure-haul-uncovered-in-stirling-field/)

Buried treasure worth an estimated £1 million has been uncovered in a field near Stirling.

The 2,000 year old hoard, featuring four gold Iron Age neckbands, was found by an unidentified metal-detecting enthusiast who reported the discovery to the Treasure Trove Unit.

The National Museum of Scotland confirmed the find to STV News on Tuesday.

The neckbands, or "torcs", are made from twisted gold and are thought to date from the 1st and 3rd century BC.

[Furtherman]

Huge Anglo-Saxon Treasure Found By Amateur (http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/279686)

An unemployed amateur treasure hunter has unearthed what is possibly the largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon treasure ever found, British archaeologists say. The discovery could change the way historians view the Dark Ages in Britain, one said.

You can a photo gallery of what here found here. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8272370.stm)

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/46434000/jpg/_46434711_008008313-1.jpg
Gold strip that bears the inscription: "Rise up O Lord, and may thy enemies be dispersed and those who hate thee be driven from thy face."

[Furtherman]

On first time out with his metal detector, amateur treasure hunter finds £1m hoard of ancient golden jewellery. (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1225271/David-Booths-1m-gold-Stirlingshire-Amateur-treasure-hunter-finds-hoard-ancient-jewellery.html)

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/11/05/article-1225271-07159825000005DC-505_634x325.jpg

When David Booth bought himself a metal detector, he was looking for a new hobby – and perhaps the occasional old coin.
But on his very first outing with the device, he uncovered a £1million hoard of Iron Age jewellery that is Scotland’s most important find in a century.
Mr Booth, 35, found four gold necklaces – known as ‘torcs’ – buried just six inches beneath the surface in a field near Stirling.

Up until his amazing find, he had only switched the £240 gadget on to ‘detect’ knives and forks in his own kitchen as practice.
But just one hour into his first outdoor foray – and only seven paces from where he had parked the car – he became the country’s most famous finder.
The hoard – dating back as far as 300BC - has excited archaeologists so much, they say it changes the way we look at Scotland’s ancient inhabitants.
And under treasure trove rules in this country, the safari park keeper is set to get a reward equal to the market value of the find.

Lucky bastard.

[boosterp]

On first time out with his metal detector, amateur treasure hunter finds £1m hoard of ancient golden jewellery. (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1225271/David-Booths-1m-gold-Stirlingshire-Amateur-treasure-hunter-finds-hoard-ancient-jewellery.html)

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/11/05/article-1225271-07159825000005DC-505_634x325.jpg



Lucky bastard.

I'm jealous.

[Furtherman]

3 Year Old Boy Finds Wedding Rings Buried in Yard (http://www.gnn.com/article/3-year-old-boy-digging-in-yard-finds/761813?icid=main%7Chp-desktop%7Cdl1%7Clink3%7Chttp://www.gnn.com/article/3-year-old-boy-digging-in-yard-finds/761813)

(Nov. 6) -- A 3-year-old boy digging in his yard found wedding rings that were lost by the home's original owner 33 years ago.
The rings 3-year-old Ryan Baima, of Franklin, Mass., dug up were lost in 1976 and belong to retired school teacher Joan Mulligan

[Crossweird]

3 Year Old Boy Finds Wedding Rings Buried in Yard (http://www.gnn.com/article/3-year-old-boy-digging-in-yard-finds/761813?icid=main%7Chp-desktop%7Cdl1%7Clink3%7Chttp://www.gnn.com/article/3-year-old-boy-digging-in-yard-finds/761813)

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Gathers friends and begins long journey to evil volcano.

[A.J.]

3 Year Old Boy Finds Wedding Rings Buried in Yard (http://www.gnn.com/article/3-year-old-boy-digging-in-yard-finds/761813?icid=main%7Chp-desktop%7Cdl1%7Clink3%7Chttp://www.gnn.com/article/3-year-old-boy-digging-in-yard-finds/761813)

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"I gave (Ryan) $50 in multiple bills and he was in the house throwing it up in the air and going, 'Woo!" Mulligan told WCVB.

The story should have been titled "3 Year Old Boy Makes It Rain".

[topless_mike]

On first time out with his metal detector, amateur treasure hunter finds £1m hoard of ancient golden jewellery. (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1225271/David-Booths-1m-gold-Stirlingshire-Amateur-treasure-hunter-finds-hoard-ancient-jewellery.html)

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/11/05/article-1225271-07159825000005DC-505_634x325.jpg



Lucky bastard.

nice bling.

[topless_mike]

The story should have been titled "3 Year Old Boy Makes It Rain".

http://media.ebaumsworld.com/picture/Jerkbag/ITSGONRAIN.png

[Furtherman]

Coins from Alexander the Great found in Syria

Mar 4, 5:25 PM (ET)

By ALBERT AJI

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) - More than 250 silver coins dating back to the time of Alexander the Great were unearthed in northern Syria, a Syrian archaeologist said Thursday.

Youssef Kanjo, the head of archaeological excavations in the ancient city of Aleppo, said the coins were discovered two weeks ago in northern Syria when a local man was digging the foundations of his new home.

The man handed the coins, that were found in a bonze box, to authorities, Kanjo said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press.

The coins date from the Hellenic period, which ranges from 4th to the 1st centuries B.C. after Macedonian warrior-king Alexander the Great spread Greek culture into Middle East and beyond with his conquests.

Kanjo added that the box contained two groups of coins, 137 "tetra" drachmas (four drachmas) and 115 single drachma coins.

One side of the tetra drachma coins depicts Alexander the Great, while the other side shows the Greek god Zeus sitting on a throne with an eagle perched on his extended arm.

Some of the coins bear the inscription King Alexander in Greek, while others say Alexander or carry the name of King Philip, most likely referring to his father.

After Alexander the Great's conquests, many of the successor kingdoms in the Middle East adopted drachmas as their currency.

"The discovery is extremely important and would be added to our archaeological treasures that date back to the Hellenic era," Kanjo said.

[Furtherman]

Buried millions triggers Austrian treasure hunt (http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/07/02/austria.hidden.treasure.hunt/index.html?hpt=C2)

Treasure hunters armed with shovels and metal detectors have descended on a sleepy Austrian town in search of up to €5 million ($6.18 million) said to have been buried there by a fraudulent German financial advisor, says ORF, the Austrian broadcasting corporation.

Augustine, a 52-year-old whose full name has not been officially released by Austrian or German police, was arrested when an amateur archaeologist found a suitcase containing €150,000 ($185,000) and Augustine's passport buried near Innsbruck, the capital of the Tyrol region in the west of Austria.

[Chigworthy]

Black Bart robbed a Wells Fargo coach out here a while back. I still haven't found his stash.

[sailor]

Coins from Alexander the Great found in Syria

Mar 4, 5:25 PM (ET)

By ALBERT AJI

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) - More than 250 silver coins dating back to the time of Alexander the Great were unearthed in northern Syria, a Syrian archaeologist said Thursday.

Youssef Kanjo, the head of archaeological excavations in the ancient city of Aleppo, said the coins were discovered two weeks ago in northern Syria when a local man was digging the foundations of his new home.

The man handed the coins, that were found in a bonze box, to authorities, Kanjo said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press.

The coins date from the Hellenic period, which ranges from 4th to the 1st centuries B.C. after Macedonian warrior-king Alexander the Great spread Greek culture into Middle East and beyond with his conquests.

Kanjo added that the box contained two groups of coins, 137 "tetra" drachmas (four drachmas) and 115 single drachma coins.

One side of the tetra drachma coins depicts Alexander the Great, while the other side shows the Greek god Zeus sitting on a throne with an eagle perched on his extended arm.

Some of the coins bear the inscription King Alexander in Greek, while others say Alexander or carry the name of King Philip, most likely referring to his father.

After Alexander the Great's conquests, many of the successor kingdoms in the Middle East adopted drachmas as their currency.

"The discovery is extremely important and would be added to our archaeological treasures that date back to the Hellenic era," Kanjo said.

664 drachmas? big woop.

[A.J.]

UK treasure hunter finds 52,000 Roman coins (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100708/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_roman_coins)

[Furtherman]

UK treasure hunter finds 52,000 Roman coins (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100708/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_roman_coins)

I was just talking with a buddy about this last night, how folks in the UK can find shit like this all over the place. America is too young and too big a country to just find treasure like that.

[Dude!]

UK treasure hunter finds 52,000 Roman coins (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100708/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_roman_coins)

wow...
how cool

[ozzie]

6 Lost Treasures Waiting To Be Found (http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/33876)

Just wanted you to know that after this thread was bumped last week, I went to this link, and spent hours afterwards copying Thomas Jefferson Beale's code into an excel spreadsheet, and started sorting, and working on looking for patterns and clues...

...then got lazy, did a google search, found out how many other people had tried, and how many years they had worked on it, been arrested for digging up places in Bedford County, Virginia... and finally gave up.

Looks like this one might be a hoax.

In case you're wondering, on the mysterious sheet one, which supposedly gives the location, there are 298 different numbers used, ranging from 1 to 2906. The majority of numbers are used only once. The number 18 is used the most at 8 occurances, 19 and 216 are used 7 times... etc.

Guess it was a waste of time.

[Furtherman]

Not all treasure is found in the ground.

Ansel Adams photos found at garage sale worth $200 million (http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/07/27/ansel.adams.discovery/index.html?iref=NS1)

Rick Norsigian's hobby of picking through piles of unwanted items at garage sales in search of antiques has paid off for the Fresno, California, painter.

Two small boxes he bought 10 years ago for $45 -- negotiated down from $70 -- are now estimated to be worth at least $200 million, according to a Beverly Hills art appraiser.

Those boxes contained 65 glass negatives created by famed nature photographer Ansel Adams in the early period of his career. Experts believed the negatives were destroyed in a 1937 darkroom fire that destroyed 5,000 plates.

[torker]

Buried Archeological Treasure Found At Ground Zero (http://newsfeed.time.com/2010/07/15/buried-archeological-treasure-found-at-ground-zero/)

[Furtherman]

Is this New York family's old painting - shoved behind a sofa and known as 'The Mike' - actually a $300m Michelangelo? (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1319379/Brooklyn-Michelangelo-Kober-family-painting-actually-300m-masterpiece.html#ixzz125Xce6UI)

When their children knocked it off the wall with a wayward tennis ball, the Kober family wrapped up the painting they knew as ‘The Mike’ and shoved it behind the sofa.
There it remained for the next 27 years, ignored and forgotten along with the family legend that it was actually painted by Michelangelo.
Now, having finally consulted the experts, the Kobers are reeling with the news that it does indeed appear to be genuine - and could be the art find of the century.
It has already been whisked out of their modest suburban home in Buffalo, New York, and put in a safe, with a possible price tag of $300million (£188million).

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/10/10/article-0-0B8FA296000005DC-983_634x622.jpg

[TripleSkeet]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/10/18-million-silver-shipwreck_n_1003806.html?icid=maing-grid10%7Chtmlws-main-bb%7Cdl5%7Csec1_lnk3%7C103220

[PapaBear]

Weird. Two years to the day since the last post.

[furie]

One year, not two.

[cougarjake13]

Is this New York family's old painting - shoved behind a sofa and known as 'The Mike' - actually a $300m Michelangelo? (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1319379/Brooklyn-Michelangelo-Kober-family-painting-actually-300m-masterpiece.html#ixzz125Xce6UI)



http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/10/10/article-0-0B8FA296000005DC-983_634x622.jpg

damn some people have all the luck

[Furtherman]

30-Year Quest Ends In $15 Million Gold and Silver Coin Treasure (http://gizmodo.com/5921425/30+year-quest-ends-in-15-million-gold-and-silver-coin-treasure?utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_facebook&utm_source=gizmodo_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow)

The treasure was inside a large block of clay. It contains 30,000 to 50,000 silver and gold Celtic coins dating from the 1st Century BC. The coins—which could have been buried to prevent Roman troops from getting them during Julius Caesar's invasion of the British Islands—come from Armorica. They have been buried for more than 2,000 years. According to numismatic experts, each coin is worth 100 to 200 British Pounds ($156 to $311).

[A.J.]

If I recall correctly, Jersey is a tax haven (Robert Plant took up residency there in the mid-70s after his car crash to avoid paying huge taxes) so these guys might just luck out!

[Furtherman]

Deep-sea explorers have pulled up 48 tons of silver treasure from three miles below the surface of the North Atlantic in what may be the deepest, largest precious metal recovery in history. (http://news.discovery.com/history/biggest-treasure-yet-hauled-from-shipwreck-120718.html#mkcpgn-fbnws1)

The haul was retrieved from the S.S. Gairsoppa, a 412-foot steel-hulled British cargo ship that sank in February 1941.

The expedition, by Odyssey Marine Exploration, a company specializing in shipwreck exploration, recovered 1,203 bars of silver, totaling 1.4 million ounces.