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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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      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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        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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