[BuffaloJack]

Wow, I’ll have to start rooting around the back yard.

[Constitution Day]

Very cool!

BTTT

[rockrr]

How much for a certain birth certificate?

[Pharmboy]

I used to own a weekend house in Delaware County, NY, about 15 miles from Phoenicia, so I had heard about The Dutchman’s treasure, but that’s the only one of the six that I was familiar with. Thanks for the post...

[SoDak]

Metropolis is a cool movie, and I’ve seen the one-sheet reproductions. I dig anything Art-Deco.

[Upstate NY Guy]

Ping

[Malsua]

One would think that with enough computing power, you could decipher the cipher.

[a fool in paradise]

But here’s the kicker: there are no known surviving posters from the film’s American release. No one is even sure what the American poster looked like. It could have resembled the German one-sheet, which features Maria, a stylized female robot, and a beautiful Art Deco cityscape above her.

I think if people dig in the newspaper and city photographer archives deep enough, there might be a clue.

Movies back then often had lavish lobby decorations and things in front of the theaters where movies played.

There are many such photos of the decorations for other contemporary films. It wouldn't be the poster (and most films had several posters, even on original release, an A-Sheet, B-Sheet, etc.) but it would at least give a hint of what people are looking for.

[a fool in paradise]

Jean Laffite’s treasure is snother lost treasure, possibly off the coast of Texas or Louisiana or...

[Onelifetogive]

Assuming the barrels weren’t destroyed and the coins haven’t been exposed to the elements all this time, these missing coins should be fairly flawless. If you estimate 5,000 coins at $600 each, you’re looking at $3,000,000

Of course this is bogus. The value of the coin is based on its rareness. If you had 5,000, they ould be that much less rare.

I wonder if statistical analysis could indicate whether these coins ever came back into circulation. (i.e Is this amount significant enough to compare to the years before and after to determine if these are "missing" from the available supply.)

[SunkenCiv]

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[mowowie]

I would like to find the original Amber Room.
I think it may be sitting on the bottom of a lake somewhere.

[WoofDog123]

At some point (or already) the Morris documents will be handled by a computer, once enough textual materials are computerized/digitized to allow fast sorting of all possibilites, based on how the 2nd page was solved, if in fact it can be decrypted.

[ASOC]

Lost stuff woth big bucks eh?

How about

On Feb. 5, 1958, a B-47 bomber dropped a 7,000-pound nuclear bomb into the waters off Tybee Island, Ga., after it collided with another Air Force jet.

I bet the FedGov would pay big for that....