[bigdaddy45]

Sounds like he should have kept his mouth shut

[Doogle]

"...two stones,one green one red...????..I got three just like that, got em in boxes of Cracker Jacks in "55"""

[muleskinner]

British law requires finders of a “Treasure Trove” to report it to the authorities A.S.A.P. British law also requires that the finder be paid fair market value and the item(s) are displayed as a national treasure. So it’s a win/win.

[strongbow]

Night hawks probably have sold off untold billions of dollars in historical treasures. Sure wish I could do it.

[LibWhacker]

I always try to imagine how things like this get lost, and here's what I come up with... So, the king and queen are out for a carriage ride one Sunday afternoon, drunk as a couple of skunks. They get into a fight and the king gets ticked off, pulls his ring off his finger and gives it a fling.

Lol, well, when I was a kid, about 10 or 11 years old, we lived in a house adjacent to a large empty, weed-choked field. Directly across from us, on the other side, was a loud and rowdy honky tonk saloon. Fights were common and would spill outside onto the parking lot. Sometimes the fights would be between married or engaged couples and rings would come off and be flung into the field. I actually saw a woman go through the motions of pulling her ring off and throwing it away with my own eyes once. I heard that sort of thing happened fairly often. Anyway, always wanted to go back to that field and search it with a metal detector - even if the actors weren't royalty. It'd probably still be worth my time. The lot's probably covered with an office building by now though.