Treasure Hunting

A housewife Mary Hannaby has discovered a 15th-century gold treasure valued at £250,000 with a metal detector. This is the first item she has found that is worth something in seven years of metal detecting.

Mrs Hannaby, 57, from Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, made the discovery while out on one of her regular six-hour Sunday walks.

The treasure had been buried four inches below the ground for around 500 years. The find is thought to be part of a high-quality pendant, and depicts the Holy Trinity.

Under the Treasure Act of 1996, finders must report potential treasure such as gold and silver objects more than 300 years old. Finders are offered the market value for their discoveries which museums have first option to buy.

Roger Bland, head of treasure at the British Museum, describes the item - which at 2.8cm by 2.3cm, is barely larger than a postage stamp - as an “important find”, and said he regrets that the museum does not currently have the funds to buy it.

As one of only three of its kind to have survived, the find could be worth even more than £250,000, and its engraving is being compared to that of the Middleham Jewel, which sold at auction for £1.3million in 1986 and was later resold to the Yorkshire Museum for £2.5million.

Mrs. Hannaby stated that this little treasure will pay off her mortgage.

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A huge gold nugget was found in the ground while grating a road. It weighed in at around 100 ounces and was estimated to be worth around $130,000.

Visit the following link to see the video: Huge Gold Nugget Found

This find alone proves that there is treasure out there to be found. And you could come about it by chance like in this case or you could purchase a metal detector and improve your chances of making a great find for yourself. If you are inspired by this find to go get a detector, then make sure to grab your detector from Kellyco. You can contact us at 1-888-KELLYCO or go to http://www.kellycodetectors.com.

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Construction workers unearthed a cellar full of 800-year-old Chinese coins in Shaanxi Province.

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Hopefully everyone is wearing green today…

Sadly I find myself facing relentless pinching and have to constantly keep looking over my shoulder! I wanted to give a quick reminder that Kellyco is offering a St. Patrick’s Day Week Special with up to 72% off on selected metal detectors. I’m sure with some of those deals you can find your own treasure to celebrate with

-Matt

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Wow… okay, first of all, this is one seriously old coin. Minted only 67 years into time as we know it, this coin is possibly the oldest thing we’ve reported on at TreasureHunting.com.

Second of all: This coin was found by sifting through dirt dug from the side of a mountain where a temple used to be. It’s an unauthorized project in Temple Mount, Jerusalem, begun in 1999, that has caused extensive an irreversible archaeological damage to the ancient layers of the mountain.

40,000 volunteers have participating in this giant sifting project and over 3,500 coins have been discovered in the dirt so far. But while many of them go back to the Persian era, this is the first coin found that was actually minted right there and is the oldest.

This ancient coin does have what looks like fire damage. Experts believe it was the same fire that destroyed the Second Temple in 70 A.D. The coin is worth a “half shekel,” the face is decorated with a branch of three pomegranates and ancient Hebrew letters reading “holy Jerusalem.” On the flip side, the letters say “half shekel.”

Go to Haaretz.com for a picture of this old coin. Reminds us of something made in playdough,… very old and odd looking. What do you think?

- Shaun

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We’ve been getting a lot of emails here at TreasureHunting.com about Tropical Storm Fay. And we’re actually doing pretty alright. Buried deep in St. Cloud, Florida, we’ve had a lot of rain and wind but nothing disastrous.

Our friends on Florida’s beloved “Treasure Coast” are not doing so well. St. Lucie County officials have doubled their earlier estimates of flood damage from Fay while homes in Ft. Pierce are the hardest hit and flooded.

Fay’s has quickly been reported as the worst flooding Florida has ever seen. Linda Hargrove of Suntree, Florida says 13 inches of water had to be dumped out of her pool in a 24 hour period. Winds of 45 miles per hour were reported as early as this morning, while winds of 60 miles per hour were reported yesterday. And if that wasn’t enough - Cap Canaveral reported that 22.83 inches of rain had fallen in the last three days, while Melbourne reported 26.65 inches of rain fall.

Either way, this is no fun and we’re ready for it to stop raining. Thankfully, we’re high and dry and have power, but we feel bad for the rest of our fellow Floridians.

- Shaun & The Treasure Hunting Gang

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It’s no surprise that Florida’s beaches have been rougher than usual, with Hurricane Noel passing along the east coast. The waves have been huge, and erosion has become a very big concern. With feet of dunes washing away, the possibility to find Spanish coins or other usually impossible-to-find relics becomes almost child’s play. If you live in or near Florida, now’s the time to get out and search. Here’s a video from Brevard county showing the erosion. As always, let us know what you find!

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