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Nosey janitor discovers ancient coin hoard
Original Article by TheLocal.de
A German janitor who decided to take a peek in a box she had walked past a hundred times, discovered more than 170 ancient coins worth millions of euros.
Tanja Höls told The Local she was doing her normal rounds of storerooms in the Passau state library in Bavaria when she decided to open up the inlaid wooden box and see what was inside.
“The box itself was fairly unspectacular, it looked like a big jewellery box, with lots of little drawers inside,” she said.
“So I pulled open one of the drawers and there were some coins in it. And I pulled a couple more open, and there were more coins – lots of different ones, different sizes and different metals.”
The Diamond Shipwreck
History rarely unfolds like a fable. But consider this: A 16th-century Portuguese trading vessel, carrying a fortune in gold and ivory and bound for a famed spice port on the coast of India, is blown far off course by a fierce storm while trying to round the southern tip of Africa. Days later, battered and broken, the ship founders on a mysterious, fogbound coast sprinkled with more than a hundred million carats of diamonds, a cruel mockery of the sailors' dreams of riches. None of the castaways ever return home.
Divers Find Expensive Bottles Underwater
A couple of divers did hit the drink, when from the bottom of their dive, they discovered a deliciously fruity stink... seems a schooner ran aground, and it’s cargo they had found... some 150 bottles they brought up with a wink... and not just for the taste, for not a drop would go to waste... at $132,000 a bottle.... ahhhh whatever... you get the point now grab a glass and read the rest of this and see if you don’t strap some fins on yourself! Anyone else out there find any interesting bottles while diving?
Treasure in the English countryside
Imagine a group of soldiers or thieves travelling down an old Roman road. They step off the road and dig a pit, fill it with their goods, cover it and walk away. Travel forward 1300 years and you're now in the English countryside, farms all around you. Equipped with your metal detector you ask a local farmer if you can walk his field. On July 5, 2009, Terry Herbert came to the farmhouse door and announced to farmer Fred Johnson that he had found Anglo-Saxon treasure.
300-Year-Old Chinese Coin Found in North of Canada
Original Article by Epoch Times.
A Chinese coin more than 300 years old has been found near a proposed mine site in Yukon in north of Canada.
James Mooney, a cultural resource specialist with Ecofor Consulting Limited, spotted the coin while doing heritage impact assessment work for Western Copper and Gold Corporation.