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'Buried Treasure' Riddle Stumps Feds

Man has been trying to exchange millions in moldy notes for years

Associated Press Associated Press Jul 29, 08 8:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - It was found in a suitcase in an alfalfa field. It was in a tree. A treasure map led to a coffin full of money. Customs broker Franz Felhaber has been giving different stories about how he came to have up to $20 million in decomposing dollars for years, the AP reports. About $6.4 million has now been seized and Felhaber will need to get his story straight if he wants it back. More »

More about:  money • currency • Treasury • US currency • treasure

 US Firm Must Return
 Sunken Treasure: Spain 

'We want it all back,' navy official says of $500M in booty from 19th-century wreck

Associated Press Associated Press May 8, 08 4:16 PM CDT
(Newser) - Spain filed evidence today in support of its claim it is the rightful owner of a shipwreck loaded with $500 million in treasure discovered and looted by a US exploration firm, the AP reports. The Spanish government identifies the wreck, whose identity has been disputed over the past year, as the Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes, sunk by a British warship in 1804. More »

More about:  Spain • archaeology • treasure • navy • warship • geologist

 Sunken Treasure
  Found off Africa 

16th century wreck packed with coins, artifacts

Times South Africa May 2, 08 7:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - Geologists have discovered a 16th-century Spanish ship with a cache of gold coins and priceless artifacts off the coast of Namibia. The stunning find was made last month by a crew seeking sites for coastal diamond mining operations, the South Africa Times reports. Work has been halted and the site secured for archaeologists, said a spokesman for the company, a DeBeers subsidiary. More »

More about:  shipwreck • treasure • gold coins • Namibia

Germans Find Hidden Nazi Gold

Gold pinpointed in cavern, stolen chamber of the czars could be nearby

Der Spiegel Der Spiegel Feb 20, 08 7:44 AM CST
(Newser) - Treasure hunters in Germany have announced they've found a secret stash of Nazi gold in an underground cavern and they believe it could be from the looted Amber Room of the Russian czars, Der Speigel reports. Instruments have detected what could be 2 tons of gold in the cavern near a town on the Czech border. The site was pinpointed using coordinates found among the belongings of a former Luftwaffe staffer who died recently. More »

More about:  Russia • Germany • Nazi • World War II • history • discovery • gold • treasure • Amber Room • Luftwaffe • czar

(Newser) - A pot filled with mostly silver coins, buried for 1,000 years, was found recently by a father and son wielding a metal detector on a farm in Yorkshire, England.  Archeologosists theorize that the find by Dave and Andrew Whelan was booty from a Viking raid on a monastery. The hoard of coins is from England, Ireland, France, Russia and the Arabic-speaking world. More »

More about:  archeology • treasure • Yorkshire

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