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13-Year-Old Boy Finds Treasure Trove of 1,000-Year-Old Silver Coins
Popular Mechanics ^
| April 16, 2018
| Kirsten Grieshaber
Posted on 04/16/2018 10:51:15 AM PDT by C19fan
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Also found royal burials of Viking kitties. The coins look to be in great shape.
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posted on
04/16/2018 10:51:15 AM PDT
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
He does much better than the mystery gold hunting shows on TV.
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posted on
04/16/2018 10:52:11 AM PDT
by
bmwcyle
(People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
04/16/2018 10:52:53 AM PDT
by
fieldmarshaldj
("It's Slappin' Time !")
To: bmwcyle
The problem with the mystery gold hunting is if they found the treasure the series would have to end.
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posted on
04/16/2018 10:52:56 AM PDT
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
Vikings were financed by mussulmen, you know, and, obviously, so were the royal kitties ...
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posted on
04/16/2018 10:54:25 AM PDT
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
To: C19fan
When I was between ages of 9 and 13 y/o, to actually find
a real treasure ‘chest’ would have been a dream come true!
I would not even have told my parents or friends until after I had hidden away a certain amount for future use.
And not a moment before.
I would have obscured the trails and given anyone else misinformation. All this if no witnesses.
To: C19fan
“A secret is known by only one”
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posted on
04/16/2018 10:56:44 AM PDT
by
Fireone
(Hillary=Herpes....she just keeps showing up.)
To: Fireone
Or the 13 year old is just smarter or more lucky.
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posted on
04/16/2018 10:58:36 AM PDT
by
bmwcyle
(People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
To: C19fan
They’ll give him a nice feather for his cap, blow glorious smoke open his ass and then confiscate his treasure.
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posted on
04/16/2018 11:02:28 AM PDT
by
Lurkina.n.Learnin
(Wisdom and education are different things. Don't confuse them.)
To: C19fan
The state archaeology office then became involved and the entire treasure was uncovered by experts over the weekend...
The kid won't see on single penny. The state will take it all and give him a nice pat on the head.
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posted on
04/16/2018 11:05:50 AM PDT
by
Spruce
To: C19fan
So the boy and a friend found 1 coin. The gubmint got wind of it, stepped in, discovered the BIG haul, spirited it away, and the young boy is left high and dry without an attaboy or a get lost! That’s the ENTIRE story.
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posted on
04/16/2018 11:08:02 AM PDT
by
Tucker39
("It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington)
To: Lurkina.n.Learnin
Yep.
Then they’ll tax him for the full auctioned value of it just to teach him a lesson.
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posted on
04/16/2018 11:10:41 AM PDT
by
fella
("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
To: C19fan
Annnnnd, here comes the government to claim it all.
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posted on
04/16/2018 11:11:10 AM PDT
by
SkyDancer
( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
To: C19fan
The State will take the discovery and reward the boy with a booklet of coupons for free fries and McDonalds
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posted on
04/16/2018 11:13:01 AM PDT
by
Governor Dinwiddie
(MAGA in the mornin', MAGA in the evenin', MAGA at suppertime . . .)
To: C19fan
What a misleading headline, okay lie, the 13 year old only found one coin, the experts found all the rest.
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posted on
04/16/2018 11:28:54 AM PDT
by
Mastador1
(I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
To: lee martell
The kid didn’t find the treasure chest. He found a surface coin that led to an investigation by the archaeologists who found it.
To: Rebelbase
Memo to self: tell no one about that coin your kid finds. Keep digging.
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posted on
04/16/2018 11:36:18 AM PDT
by
Yaelle
To: Rebelbase
Well, it was a beginning. At least he found something with actual market value, as opposed to only intrinsic value.
To: Spruce
I found an incredibly old object of great value once. So rare that it would have been desired by a government authority.
Only showed it to a handful of close family and enjoyed it for 30 years before donating it to a worthy institution.
To: C19fan
And the kid gets what as a reward? The coins or a pat on the back? Likely he should have never alerted the government.
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