Old treasure chest brimming with coins unearthed on SC beach. Then came the bad news

TheTelegraph ^ | SEPTEMBER 16, 2020 | Mark Price

[nickcarraway]

[SaveFerris]

20 years ago there was an ATM for my bank at my client with a USPS stamp machine next to it. Every week I got my check I put $20 in the stamp machine, got just a few stamps and pocketed $19 in Susan B. Anthony coins that I tossed into a drawer at home. Looked like I had a treasure chest in my bedroom dresser.

Now I think I have 3 quarters in my pocket. But a guy wanted to borrow a quarter for a soda. Or I’d have FOUR!!!

[OrangeHoof]

I was expecting the contents of Al Capone’s vault (Jerry Rivers joke).

[SanchoP]

According to Texas Parks and Wildlife, it is an offense for a person to operate a metal detector in a Texas state park unless he is authorized by permit. This also applies to national forests and federal lands,

FYI,that explains people wandering around in the middle of the night with flashlights. ;)

[nutmeg]

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[SunkenCiv]

Shiver me fake timbers.

[SaveFerris]

Heh

[GraceG]

I was expecting: “And then the government swooped in and took it all!”

[Fresh Wind]

The title sounds like your typical YouBoob click bait teaser.

[right way right]

All I ever find is boots with feet still in them.
Eww.

[SaveFerris]

[All I ever find is boots with feet still in them.
Eww.]

“Timerider”

Helicopter scene

[CJ Wolf]

Geoke caching at its finest. love it. Bet this was perpetrated by an older quatro-chan. (no-one gets this)

[Libloather]

[null and void]

Augustus St. Godiva?

[Varda]

I suppose the hotel knows they’re doing this or it would be theft.

[metmom]

I was expecting: “And then the government swooped in and took it all!”

They will when you brag about it by posting it all over the internet.

Just keep it and shut up.

[a fool in paradise]

I was going to make a joke about them being made of chocolate when I saw that headline.

So has the State confiscated their treasure yet?

[a fool in paradise]

>>Other oddities, including World War II mines

That escalated rather quickly.

“The name of the game is ‘Treasure Hunt’ where you may be lucky to find gold treasure or CERTAIN DEATH!”

This family walks away with the sad trombone.

[OldSmaj]

Since we're getting all "anecdotal" here...this is mine.

Thirty some years ago when I bought my first plot of land, the first thing I did was start exploring it with my dad's metal detector.

I found an entire "Job Box" type of tool box, buried in about two foot of loose dirt.

Not long before buying the property, the adjacent 40 acres had been logged and apparently the tool box had been buried under the various branches and debris from that logging.

There was some rust, but very little.

In the box was a Milwaukee 3/4 inch drill, a hydraulic cable cutter and various other tools, etc.

The best thing in it was a complete (72 pieces) set of impact sockets.

It was made by Cornwell and the price of that similar set today is nearly 700 bucks.

A good way for me start my retirement and a good return on my investment in the land.

I advertised it, but never got a response and my lawyer told me it was a valiant effort to return the property, but with no response in nearly two years, I owned it.

And so I did...and I use every one of the tools on a nearly weekly basis.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I remember that! Now when they open such “treasures” on live TV they have made sure there is something inside, or planted something beforehand. Remember the Treasure Chest of the Andrea Doria? It was said they planted the money inside.