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The Fenn Treasure was a cache of gold and jewels that Forrest Fenn, an art dealer and author from Santa Fe, New Mexico, [1] hid in the Rocky Mountains of the United States. [2] It was found approximately a decade later in 2020 [ 3 ] in Wyoming by an anonymous treasure hunter later revealed to be former journalist and medical student Jack Stuef.
Gold coins dating back more than 2,000 years have been found by metal detectorists in Wales, making them the first hoard of Iron Age gold coins to have been discovered in the country.
Tommy Gregory Thompson is an American treasure hunter known for his leading role in the discovery of the wreck of the SS Central America on September 11, 1988. [4] He is also the author of a book about the discovery, America's Lost Treasure, published in 1998, [5] and is a main character in the best-selling 1998 non-fiction book Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea by Gary Kinder.
The Winchester Hoard is a hoard of Iron Age gold found in a field in the Winchester area of Hampshire, England, in 2000, by a retired florist [1] [2] and amateur metal detectorist, Kevan Halls. It was declared treasure and valued at £350,000—the highest reward granted under the Treasure Act 1996 at that time.
The hunt echoes a similar endeavor by Forrest Fenn, an art dealer who launched a treasure hunt in 2010 that attracted 350,000 participants and led to five deaths. Collins-Black, who became aware ...
Over the years they’ve unearthed gold jewelry so old it’s not stamped with a karat measurement. They’ve uncovered Civil War-era buttons, bullets, and once, even a whole cannonball.
The treasure would be composed of "carved silver, gold jewellery, pearls and stones of value, Chinese porcelain, rich fabrics, paintings and perhaps 500,000 pesos". [10] The stories about this treasure are varied, some place it in the environment of the Roques de Anaga , while others place it in the zone of Punta del Hidalgo and the cave of San ...
After 14 years of searching, the metal detectorist stumbled on a first-of-its-kind artifact buried under a field in Wales. Metal detectorist ‘never expected’ to find ancient gold treasure ...