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Written by: Rod Boyle

Category: Found

Published: 29 March 2023

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I like that from the outside it was almost completely unremarkable, yet when he picked it up and broke it in two...

Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-65095925

Honestly, this isn't news, what's news is that he bent over to pick it up. Australia is filled with preposterous happenstances like this. It just takes a hard working Aussie to bend over. 

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Written by: Rod Boyle

Category: Found

Published: 27 March 2023

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And, yet again - this time in 1956 in the Lava Gulf, a small bay off Corsica. And, naturally, treasure laws being what they are the discovery was kept secret by the Scuba Divers that found it. Estimated value - tens of millions of Euro. Many of the treasures are believed to be irretrievably lost - due entirely to out-of-date and grasping treasure laws.

Link: Wikipedia on the Lava Treasure

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Written by: Rod Boyle

Category: Found

Published: 20 March 2023

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Over 2500 Gold Coins with a combined weight of almost 20 KG found during construction in Germany, 1993. 

Note the paltry payoff given to the man who recovered the bulk of the treasure - a mere 20, 000 DM. No wonder the vast majority of ancient treasures get melted down - the law actively discourages the finding of treasure.

This was the largest Roman Era gold hoard ever discovered.

Regardless of the gold value, the historical value is priceless, and this is precisely what is lost when things go onto the black market.

Link: Wikipedia on Trier Gold Hoard

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Written by: Rod Boyle

Category: Found

Published: 14 March 2023

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Exactly what it says. A clay jug from the 17th Century filled with copper coinage of the era. Unfortunately Archaeologists had to be called in because metal detecting relics in Poland is illegal. 

Which means - a lot of finds go undiscovered or unreported.

Link: https://www.livescience.com/17th-century-century-hoard-brimming-with-1000-coins-discovered-in-poland