It's seemed that every day there's been a new "discovery" and I've not particularly done a good job of keeping up.
I mean, I'm interested, but I'm not in Europe where most of these discoveries are being made and so I have confined my interests to those more local.
First of all - The Great Canadian Treasure Hunt via The Northern Miner has just had it's second consolation prize found in Cobalt Ontario: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKwHoMii2UI
The first was found in Dawson City: https://treasure.northernminer.com/uncategorized-en/first-bonus-prize-in-the-great-canadian-treasure-hunt-discovered-in-dawson-city/
I'm going to start having to pay attention, pretty sure there'll be a treasure someplace on the island...
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In other news, a fisherman digging for worms unearths a copper cauldron stuffed with some 20, 000 silver coins and bits of jewelry from the 12th century: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-fisherman-was-digging-for-worms-in-sweden-when-he-stumbled-upon-a-trove-of-medieval-silver-180987524/
And a German detectorist unearths the Borsum Hoard in 2017; then takes 8 years to tell authorities about it, he was waiting for the statute of limitations to run out: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/roman-silver-hoard-saxony-metal-detectorist-2703890#:~:text=Authorities%20in%20Lower%20Saxony%2C%20northwestern,kept%20the%20haul%20a%20secret.
Meanwhile, a similar game has been playing out in Britain with the Herefordshire Hoard, first unearthed in 2015 and as of yet only partially recovered: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herefordshire_hoard
The BBC has a podcast on it here: https://www.bbc.com/audio/brand/p0kvsxcv
Another hoard found in Wales, up to 15, 000 coins: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd67vv66wxxo
Then there's Florida, where there's always a Galleon being dived: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI2cd20uXnE
While that hardly catches us up, it is inspiring...
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Oh, and I forgot this. The world's largest Buddha statue is made of solid gold, and weighs in at over 12, 000 pounds. Solid gold, varying Karats. It was covered in paper-mache for centuries to hide it's value, and was only "rediscovered" in the 1950's.
A little more than you could ride away on a motorcycle with...