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A cup passed on to a grandson was thought to be made of brass, but was instead of gold and about 2,500-years old. At a British auction, it went for $100,000 (£50,000).
Englishman John Webster inherited the cup from his grandfather, a "rag-and-bone" man or junk dealer, and had it stored for years [...]

Florida treasure-hunting firm Odyssey Marine Exploration struck jackpots last week with huge announcements.
On top of two new shipwreck site finds, Odyssey will be in front of millions of people worldwide in a new prime time TV series on the Discovery Channel.
Odyssey filed admiralty arrests in the U.S. District Court for the [...]

An alabaster head of Cleopatra and a Aphrodite mask believed to be Mark Antony’s have been found near Egypt’s Mediterranean city of Alexandria, according to Egypt’s antiquities chief Zahi Hawass.
Cleopatra was Queen of Egypt, and Mark Anthony a ruler of Rome after Caesar’s death. The pair were famous lovers and each committed [...]

Rare gold coins discovered in a sunken steamship off the Louisiana coast have been put under the microscope of sorts, by coin experts.
The SS New York was a 165-foot side-wheel steamship that was found under some 60 feet of water in the Gulf of Mexico.
It carried within its hull coins made in [...]

The Namibian government is taking over the responsibility for the excavation of the 500-year old shipwreck diamond hunters found in the Atlantic, off the Namibia, African coast.
Last month geologists hunting for diamonds instead discovered a several hundred year old shipwreck filled with silver and gold coins, copper ingots, cannons and other valuable artifacts.
The [...]

Tammy Bullock of Boulder, Colorado found a painting in the trash, decided to grab it, held it for 10 years, and almost tossed it when moving into a new home.
It’s a good thing she didn’t. Although she didn’t know what to do with it or how to sell it, she felt it could [...]

Geologists hunting for diamonds instead discovered a several hundred year old shipwreck filled with silver and gold coins, copper ingots, cannons and other valuable artifacts.
Namdeb Diamond Corporation, a joint venture of the government of Namibia and the mining company De Beers, made the discovery during mining operations in the Atlantic, off the [...]

A rare and ancient silver coin was uncovered in the main drainage channel of Jerusalem from the Second Temple Period. The Israel Antiquities Authority reported the find while carrying out an archaeological excavation in the Walls around Jerusalem National Park.
The silver shekel-denominated coin was said to be of the type used to pay the half [...]

Two metal detecting men uncovered 49 coins in a field that was once the site of a Roman encampment. The field is near Ugthorpe, UK and has been the source of at least two other finds.
The Roman coins, along with part of a brooch discovered, were declared treasure. Russell Willis, one of [...]

Taking steps that could be considered more procedural in impact, U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday made several rulings in relationship to the Odyssey Marine Exploration, Inc. v. The Unidentified Shipwrecked Vessel (Spain) case.
As you may recall from past HuntTreasure.net articles, this series of events started in May of 2007, when the [...]

The digging near Deutschneudorf, Germany at a site that is hoped to contain buried buried Nazi loot, including parts of the famed Amber Room, has stopped according to the Associated Press.
Up to the third day of drilling, which was yesterday, Feb. 28, eleven holes at two different locations had been dug. (See photos of [...]

Deutschneudorf, Germany — Treasure hunters in Germany may have found the fabled Amber Room treasure, according to Spiegel Online. The Amber Room was built from 1701-1709 in Prussia and was beautifully created by German and Russian craftsmen with amber panels that were backed with gold leafs and mirrors.
The chamber was given to Russian [...]

You might imagine finding some old pennies, but who would ever expect to discover a shiny gold coin buried within the oldest part of an American City? But an old gold coin was indeed found, and it’s worth tens of thousands of dollars.
The Main Plaza area of downtown San Antonio, TX has been experiencing [...]

Many years have passed since the 1849 California Gold Rush near Sacramento, 158 in fact. These were the days long before the inventions of the light bulb or the automobile. The United States Civil War was still 12 years off, and California was not even a state yet.
Life was difficult for a majority of Americans. [...]

We have all heard stories about valuable finds located in rummage sales, thrift shops or even along side the street waiting to go to the dump.  Remember the HuntTreasure.net news account of the painting “Tres personajes” or “Three People”.
This 1970 work by Rufino Tamayo, was bought for $1,049,000 at an auction by Sothbeys.  Only a couple of years [...]

Miami, Florida (US)  —   There’s been an interesting series of twists and turns in the struggle between Odyssey Marine Exploration, a Florida based company that specializes in deep ocean shipwreck exploration, and the Spanish government.
Earlier this year Odyssey discovered and recovered a huge haul - apparently 17 tons - of silver and gold [...]

Overton, Wrexham (UK)  —   A man with his metal detector discovered a 17th century gold coin-like object on farm land in Wrexham, North Wales.
It’s similar in appearance to a coin, but has a small whole as if made to hang from a chain. That and its design helped identify its true [...]

The Mississippi, Missouri, St. Lawrence and Hudson; these are just a couple of America’s great rivers that served as roadways to multiple tons of potential treasure.
In the time of the fictional characters Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, steamships were the mainstay of trade up and down the river.
This meant that cargo for all walks of [...]

A Somerville, Tennessee man was having a gully leveled on his cattle farm when a bulldozer being used turned over a pile of debris.
The man, Doug Wiggington, grabbed a trash bag to pick up the mess and turned up an old, dirty bottle on his first grab.
It had an interesting amber color and [...]

It takes guts to buy anything at a flea market you’re going to sit or lay on each day. You just never know who or what has been there before you. And really scary, the "what" could still be there waiting to grab you unawares.
However, a Berlin student had the guts and [...]

Most everyone has heard the saying, "One man’s trash is another man’s treasure." Elizabeth Gibson was walking one morning when she found a piece of treasure in the trash.
That treasure turned out to be the famous painting, ‘Tres Personajes’ (Three People), by Mexican artist Rufino Tamayo. The person who placed it in the trash [...]

Who would ever think of coming Kansas wheat fields for rocks? And we’re not talking about normal rocks, but those of extraterrestrial origin. Or, more to the point, meteorites that plowed into those wheat fields thousands of years ago.
Two men, Phi Mani and Steve Arnold, did. They met several years back [...]

The island province of Gotland is a part of Sweden so when torrential rain pours down and unearths a few coins, you’d expect them to be of Swedish origin.
With two old coins emerging after the downpour, archaeologist interest perked up and exploration began.
The result? The discovery of 52 more coins. And more interesting, [...]