Month: July 2020

Norfolk treasure hunters discover more than 6,500 items in just one year

Lost Coins, Treasure Hunting


A senior archeologist says Norfolk is a hot spot for treasure hunters, after a bumper year which saw a Medieval chandelier and Bronze Age sword discovered. New research has revealed 120 items of treasure were discovered across the UK daily during the past 12 months, with Nelson’s county unearthing a seventh of those finds. Norfolk has been dubbed the best place for aspiring treasure hunters, with more than 6,500 items discovered by metals detectors since June 2019.

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    Top 10 Best Coin Metal Detectors 2020

    Featured Metal Detectors, Metal Detecting Insight, Treasure Hunting


    1. Bounty Hunter TK4 Tracker IV Metal Detector Movement all-metal mode, discrimination mode, and 2-tone audio mode.bigger objects as much as three toes Disc/notch management distinguishes between targets and undesirable metals Rugged steel detector superb for detecting treasure in excessive floor circumstances Preset floor stability neutralizes response to mineral content material within the floor Ships […]

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      Rose Festival Treasure Found At East Delta Park In North Portland | KXL

      Treasure Hunting, Uncategorized


      Congratulations to Neal Dietz! Neal found the hidden Rose Festival Medallion this morning around 10:30am, inside some yellow tubing on a baseball field fence at East Delta Park. He tells KXL’s Jacob Dean, a fellow treasure hunter, “It’s like that feeling you get when you get a steelhead or salmon into the boat and your hands are shaking. Did I really find this again?” Neal is one of only a couple hunters who’ve found the treasure twice. He also found it three years ago near Ft. Vancouver. His advice for other hunters looking for the treasure: get a hunting partner or a group together to bounce ideas off of each other.

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        Teal Lake Jewelry to host treasure hunt in Marquette County – ABC 10/CW 5 – WBUP/WBKP

        Treasure Hunting


        MARQUETTE COUNTY — Hunting for buried treasure might sound like something out of a storybook, but an upcoming event will have people outside digging for gold all over Marquette County. On August 8, somewhere beneath the ground of Marquette County, will be real life buried treasure. Seven chests will be buried throughout the area for the Teal Lake Jewelry Treasure Hunt. Each chest will contain diamonds or gold, worth anywhere from $3,000 – $6,000. After hearing about similar events downstate, organizer Ashley Speaker thought the treasure hunt would be a great opportunity for this community.

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          Lucky Aussie finds a rare coin worth a small fortune

          Buried Treasure, Lost Coins, Metal Detecting Insight


          Shane King was walking along an old train line with his metal detector in Busselton, Western Australia when he came across a 1909 half sovereign made of 22-carat gold. A lucky Australian has literally struck gold by finding a precious rare coin thanks to a late change of plans on where to go on his regular hunts with a metal detector. Shane King was due to join a mate on a day out detecting, but that fell through, and instead he went searching along the old train line near the centre of Busselton, Western Australia, when he came across a 1909 half sovereign made of 22-carat gold. ‘I actually rang my mate to go detecting and he cancelled on me, so I tried a new spot and I dug up just in Busselton, Western Australia,’ he said.

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            Douglas Winter Numismatics Sells Finest Known Wass Molitor 1855 $20

            Lost Coins, numismatic coins


            Douglas Winter Numismatics (DWN), a Portland, Oregon firm specializing in choice and rare United States gold coinage, recently sold the single-finest-known example of the 1855 Wass, Molitor & Company Small Head $20.00, graded MS62 by PCGS and approved by CAC. The coin was sold to a specialized collector in Southern California, and the reported price was in excess of $200,000 USD.

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              Why Silver Will Outperform Gold Before the Precious Metals Rally Stops

              Medallion, numismatic coins, Treasure Hunt


              Gold hit new all-time highs Monday. Silver, meanwhile, is only around $24. The grey metal will outperform gold from here. Gold hit a new all-time high in dollar terms Monday, and silver rose to a seven-year high of $24. Most analysts see the metal moving far higher. With silver at $24 per ounce, the metal has been a clear laggard.

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                IFD divers help recover prosthetic leg worth thousands

                Lost & Found, Metal Detecting Insight, Treasure Hunting

                On Saturday, Indianapolis Fire Department Tactical Team 7 found themselves diving into the murky depths of Geist Reservoir in search of lost treasure. Only it wasn’t gold doubloons or a lost pirate’s chest they sought. It was a titanium/carbon fiber prosthetic leg, said to be worth $20,000. According to IFD, Tactical Team 7 had just finished a two hour training exercise in Geist Reservoir and were loading their boats unto trailers when officers with the Indiana Department of Natural Resources approached and asked the divers for assistance in recovering the leg.

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                  Author’s memoir leads to jewels in Stage Fort Park

                  Buried Treasure, Lost & Found, Treasure Hunt

                  In the dead of winter, hands “frozen as popsicles,”  they combed the woods of Stage Fort Park. They were on a hunt, a treasure hunt, and if they were right, the treasure — a jewel-encrusted bracelet worth $2,200 — was hidden somewhere very near. The couple had come a long way to this ancient rock, all the way from Vermont, driven by cryptically poetic riddles and clues that led them first to Gloucester, then —led further by clues like “Ravenswood” and “Half-moon” — to the shores of historic Stage Fort Park, and to steep paths surrounding the great Tablet Rock, in search of a “many trunked maple” in the midst of a thick “oak grove.”

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                    A Rare 1714 Mexican Gold Coin Could Fetch US$400,000 at Auction

                    Buried Treasure, Lost Coins, Metal Detecting Insight, Mexican Gold, numismatic coins

                    A very rare 1714 Mexican gold coin, known as the Presentation 8 Escudos, could sell for between US$200,000 and US$400,000 at a live auction on Aug. 6 in Las Vegas. The coin was believed to be minted for Spanish dignitaries, most likely for the king, as a symbol of Spain’s success in expanding into the New World, according to Stack’s Bowers Galleries, a leading numismatic auction house that is handling the sale. This coin and others like it were aboard a fleet of galleons headed from the New World to Spain in 1715. The ships all sunk in a hurricane when they neared what is today known as the Florida Keys, according to the auction house.

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