Category: Buried Treasure

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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    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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        Jeweler creates real treasure hunt with items from his closed store

        Buried Treasure, Lost & Found, Treasure Hunting


        Most newlyweds spend their honeymoon visiting destinations such as Hawaii or the Virgin Islands. Johnny and Amy Perri of Shelby Township, being the more adventurous type and having a jewelry store at their disposal, spent their time getting to know one another while burying treasure around the state. We’re talking diamonds, gold rings, silver coins over a 100 years old and 10 ounce bars of solid silver.

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          The Forrest Fenn treasure: An insane story about a real-life treasure hunt – Film Daily

          Buried Treasure, Lost Coins, Medallion, Treasure Hunt

          The age of quests & treasure hunts was revived during the last decade with the advent of the Forrest Fenn treasure hunt. The elusive treasure was claimed to be found in June 2020 much to the chagrin of rival hunters and the relief of law officials & national park rangers. Forrest Fenn organized the treasure hunt many  years ago and in 2010 published a twenty-four-line poem that gave cryptic clues to the treasure’s location. Over the ten years it took for the treasure to be discovered, a litany of misfortune has followed the hunt like a curse, including the deaths of five people searching for the spoils.

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            Treasure Hunting ‘Scavengers’ Reunite Woman With Engagement Ring She Lost In Ocean At Rockaway Beach

            Buried Treasure, Lost & Found, Lost Ring Found, Metal Detecting Insight

            Pure joy was caught on camera as the “Scavengers” reunited Gina Bopp with her engagement ring. Bopp was enjoying time at Rockaway Beach with friends Monday. “Her son got caught in a wave, so I went to go grab him, and I felt my ring sliding off my finger,” she told CBS2’s Vanessa Murdock. She searched the surf and shore for eight hours with no luck. “I went on Amazon and bought a fake one because I thought there’s no way I’m going to get another one,” Bopp said. She reached to Merrill Kazanjian, of Metal Detecting NYC. He helped her search Tuesday morning. “It was an opporutnity to reconnect somebody with a moment in their lives,” he said.

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