Man Makes $160,000 Gold Haul Using Basic Metal Detector

Treasure hunters have been searching for their fortunes for centuries, leading many of us to believe that everything that may have been hidden by our ancestors and civilizations past has already been discovered.

But just this week a man in the UK decided to purchase a basic metal detector and give treasure hunting a go.

A few days later he struck the mother lode:

The cache of coins – Roman solidi dating back to the 4 th century – is estimated to be worth £100,000, or about $160,000 in U.S. dollars.

According to the Helmel Gazette newspaper, the man – whose name has not been made public – reportedly bought a beginner’s metal detector from a shop in the Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, area. A few weeks later, the man returned to the shop, showed the shopkeepers 40 gold coins, and asked them: “What do I do with this?”

The shop’s owners, David Sewell and Mark Becher, were stunned. They told the novice treasure hunter to notify authorities of his discovery, the paper added. When he obtained the required permits, Sewell, Becher and others returned with the man to the discovery site.

“We went with them and took with us a couple of slightly more potent machines and we pulled 119 more coins out of the ground,” Sewell told the Daily Mail newspaper. “These are 22 carat gold, they haven’t got any damage and they came out of the ground looking like the day they were made.”

He added: “I’ve found bits and pieces but nothing like this. I’ve got immense satisfaction that the guy came to us and bought the machine from us, but I would be lying if I said I didn’t wish it had been me.”

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While Roman legions and the numerous armies that battled across Europe over the ages never made their way to the United States, maybe we shouldn’t give up on the notion of finding grand treasures in our part of the world just yet.

Perhaps there’s something to those rumored cities of gold and Illuminati treasures suppoesdlyhidden in the rain forests, deserts and mountains of South, Central and North America.

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