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10.The Hand of Faith: $1.1 million
In 1980, near Kingower, Australia, Kevin Hillier found the largest gold nugget ever using a metal detector. The nugget is of fine-quality gold, weighing 875 ozt. (27.21 kg). The gold nugget was only 12 inches below the surface, resting in a vertical position.
9.The Hoxne hoard: $2.3 million
In 1992 in the village of Suffolk in England, metal detectorist Eric Lawes was asked by a local farmer Peter Whatling, to help him find lost prized hammer on one of his fields. Lawes didn’t find the hammer, but he did discover something else. He discovered the largest stash of late Roman gold and silver in Britain.
8.The Staffordshire hoard: $4.1 million
Terry Herbert was using his metal detector on a recently plowed field near Hammerwich in Staffordshire, when he stumbled across the largest trove of Anglo-Saxon treasure ever found. It consists of over 3500 items, amounting to a total of 5.1 kg (11 lb) of gold, 1.4 kg (3 lb) of silver and some 3500 pieces of garnet cloisonné jewellery.
7.Belitung Shipwreck – $90 million
Belitung Shipwreck is also known as Tang shipwreck or Batu Hitam shipwreck that occurred around 830 AD. The wreck is of an Arabian dhow that sailed from Africa to China. The ship successfully completed the journey from Africa to China but sank during the return journey near Belitung Island, Indonesia. The mystery of why the ship was so far from the expected route back from China is still unclear.
6.The Antikythera Treasures – $120–160 million
The Antikythera shipwreck happened more than 2000 years ago in the second quarter of 1st century BC. The ship sank near the Greek island of Antikythera on the edge of the Aegean Sea, northwest of Crete. The shipwreck was first discovered more than 100 years ago by sponge divers in 1900.
5.Titanic Treasures – $190-200 million
Titanic shipwreck is the most famous shipwreck of all time. The RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner which was carrying more than 1,500 passengers and crew-members on-board when it sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912 after colliding with an iceberg. The ship was carrying expensive artifacts, gold, diamonds, silver, and other valuable items worth more than $300 million from high-profile and wealthy people.
4.The British Treasury Ship or The SS Gairsoppa – $210 million
The British Treasury Ship or the SS Gairsoppa was a British steam merchant ship built-in 1919 and operated during the Second World War. In 1941 the ship was torpedoed by a German U-boat which left the ship sinking with 85 passengers. The ship had exhausted its entire fuel and was on its way to Galway, Ireland when the ship wrecked. The ship was carrying 200 tons of silver when the ship sank.
3.Whydah Gally – $400 million
Whydah Gally is a fully rigged galley ship built originally for passengers, cargo and as a slave ship. The ship was captured by pirates during its return voyage of the triangle trade. It was captured by the pirate Captain Samuel “Black Sam” Bellamy and referred the capture as a flagship
2.Black Swan Project: $500 million
In 2007, Salvage firm Odyssey Marine Exploration used metal detectors to find a staggering $500 million (£380m)-worth of gold and silver coins, which went down with a Spanish frigate off the coast of Portugal in 1804. Initially Odyssey kept the origin of the treasure confidential. It was later proved in trial that the recovered cargo was being carried by the Spanish frigate Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes, which sank off Portugal in 1804.
1.The Caesarea sunken treasure: priceless
Scuba divers exploring the seabed near the harbor of Caesarea National Park, Israel, thought they’d stumbled across a child’s toy when they found the first gold coin.They didn't realize that they had discovered a 1600-year-old shipwreck, its valuable cargo still in the remains of the deteriorating wooden hold.
I hope you are as shocked as i am about the prices of these finds it makes you want to go digging anyway i hope you have a chilled day from the Viking.
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10.The Hand of Faith: $1.1 million
In 1980, near Kingower, Australia, Kevin Hillier found the largest gold nugget ever using a metal detector. The nugget is of fine-quality gold, weighing 875 ozt. (27.21 kg). The gold nugget was only 12 inches below the surface, resting in a vertical position.
9.The Hoxne hoard: $2.3 million
In 1992 in the village of Suffolk in England, metal detectorist Eric Lawes was asked by a local farmer Peter Whatling, to help him find lost prized hammer on one of his fields. Lawes didn’t find the hammer, but he did discover something else. He discovered the largest stash of late Roman gold and silver in Britain.
8.The Staffordshire hoard: $4.1 million
Terry Herbert was using his metal detector on a recently plowed field near Hammerwich in Staffordshire, when he stumbled across the largest trove of Anglo-Saxon treasure ever found. It consists of over 3500 items, amounting to a total of 5.1 kg (11 lb) of gold, 1.4 kg (3 lb) of silver and some 3500 pieces of garnet cloisonné jewellery.
7.Belitung Shipwreck – $90 million
Belitung Shipwreck is also known as Tang shipwreck or Batu Hitam shipwreck that occurred around 830 AD. The wreck is of an Arabian dhow that sailed from Africa to China. The ship successfully completed the journey from Africa to China but sank during the return journey near Belitung Island, Indonesia. The mystery of why the ship was so far from the expected route back from China is still unclear.
6.The Antikythera Treasures – $120–160 million
The Antikythera shipwreck happened more than 2000 years ago in the second quarter of 1st century BC. The ship sank near the Greek island of Antikythera on the edge of the Aegean Sea, northwest of Crete. The shipwreck was first discovered more than 100 years ago by sponge divers in 1900.
5.Titanic Treasures – $190-200 million
Titanic shipwreck is the most famous shipwreck of all time. The RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner which was carrying more than 1,500 passengers and crew-members on-board when it sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912 after colliding with an iceberg. The ship was carrying expensive artifacts, gold, diamonds, silver, and other valuable items worth more than $300 million from high-profile and wealthy people.
4.The British Treasury Ship or The SS Gairsoppa – $210 million
The British Treasury Ship or the SS Gairsoppa was a British steam merchant ship built-in 1919 and operated during the Second World War. In 1941 the ship was torpedoed by a German U-boat which left the ship sinking with 85 passengers. The ship had exhausted its entire fuel and was on its way to Galway, Ireland when the ship wrecked. The ship was carrying 200 tons of silver when the ship sank.
3.Whydah Gally – $400 million
Whydah Gally is a fully rigged galley ship built originally for passengers, cargo and as a slave ship. The ship was captured by pirates during its return voyage of the triangle trade. It was captured by the pirate Captain Samuel “Black Sam” Bellamy and referred the capture as a flagship
2.Black Swan Project: $500 million
In 2007, Salvage firm Odyssey Marine Exploration used metal detectors to find a staggering $500 million (£380m)-worth of gold and silver coins, which went down with a Spanish frigate off the coast of Portugal in 1804. Initially Odyssey kept the origin of the treasure confidential. It was later proved in trial that the recovered cargo was being carried by the Spanish frigate Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes, which sank off Portugal in 1804.
1.The Caesarea sunken treasure: priceless
Scuba divers exploring the seabed near the harbor of Caesarea National Park, Israel, thought they’d stumbled across a child’s toy when they found the first gold coin.They didn't realize that they had discovered a 1600-year-old shipwreck, its valuable cargo still in the remains of the deteriorating wooden hold.
I hope you are as shocked as i am about the prices of these finds it makes you want to go digging anyway i hope you have a chilled day from the Viking.
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