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Ever wondered what happens when everyday people stumble across something extraordinary during a normal day? In this episode of The Worst of the Best Podcast, Ryan and Jason dive into 10 wild true stories of ordinary folks who turned walks in the park, lost tools, garage sale buys, and backyard digs into life-changing fortunes worth millions. From massive gold nuggets to forgotten historical relics and rare gems, these lucky (or insanely fortunate) discoveries prove that treasure can be hiding anywhere!
Join us for hilarious banter, family stories (including some from our own dad's excavator digs), and debates on what we'd keep in our dream "found treasure" museum. Perfect for anyone who loves treasure hunting tales, metal detecting dreams, or just unbelievable luck!
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welcome to the worst of the best podcast you wanted the best well they didn't freaking make
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it so here's what you get from Canada Ryan and Jason
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welcome to the worst of the best podcast I'm your host Ryan and with me today as always as of late is Jason how you doing
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doing well how are you doing good good Jason have you ever found anything of value in your life meaning like an item
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that was something that you thought was rare or anything have you ever stumbled across any kind of treasure or anything
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like that your life unfortunately no I have found very little value up to 48 years I've found very little value
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really in anything except for like this podcast oh wow so value in this podcast which will and uh spoiler alert this
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podcast will not provide any monetary value in your life either I'm sorry it's just good time spending with you I appreciate that yeah this is interesting
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this is an interesting topic these are people who just went about their daily activities whether it was going going for a walk or but it's just crazy how
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some of these people were just well they're incredibly lucky and they happen to have either in their possession stumbled across an item throughout their
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everyday activity and they became millionaires literal millionaires due to just oh this is great I found this and
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what is this yeah happen chance right place right time hasn't happened to me yet no I hope it will I recall our dad
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he's a a heavy machinery operator which is like those what is the term that he what does he operate excavator excavator thank you I always forget that word he
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he yeah I know he's only been doing this since uh a lifetime before you were born up until still 73 years old and he's
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still going strong exavator it actually is pretty crazy that our dad who yeah 73 he goes
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to work every day operating an excavator throughout his digging he's come across a few things in his digging and it's kind of fun I remember when we were kids
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he would bring home stuff that he un Unearthed one of them was I remember remember was like that a whiskey kind of
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a whiskey bottle jar clay it was brown yeah two-tone wasn't it like a dark brown and a a light brown had that screw
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on lid yeah yeah yeah oh yeah he wased I think there was actually a collection I think there was more than just one
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probably an early Vancouver Island settler or back in the 1800s this was Fort Victoria and they probably H
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somebody's whiskey you know like it's kind of cool I'm not quite sure what it would have held but or water or who knows but it was Clay or ceramic or
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something whatever they would have used back then there been a few other items that I I can kind of recall can't really describe what they were or what the uses
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of them are but fossils there's a few times you come home with fossils yeah we never got any of the assess though our
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dad should have got the vess we could we could stand Millions maybe we would have to be doing this podcast oh man okay keep digging dad let
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us know if you find anything we'll get it assessed all right well here we go so these are 10 examples and 10 stories of
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ordinary people who made astonishing discoveries that made them millions of dollars overnight number 10 in the fall
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of 1980 this guy named Kevin Hillier and his family they were traveling up and down the Australian coast in a van searching for work opportunities so
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that's the irony here they were they were looking for work in 1980 going up and down the road like you know looking
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for maybe help wanted signs uh right just little odds and ends jobs so Hillier had been making ends meet by
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doing you know these odd jobs throughout the years but he suffered a back injury and the doctors told them you know you need to cut back on your physical labor
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cut back on physical labor at the same time so this obviously you know inhibit his odd job type activity but he took up
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the interest in I don't know how old metal detecting is and this metal detecting will come up a few times in our stories I this is probably why people do this as a hobby it's probably
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fun this is exactly why they yeah okay yeah I was actually out at a Squam Lagoon a couple days ago and there was a
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you know I'm not sure husband wife or boyfriend girlfriend walking up and down the beach with the metal detector and
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headphones on and just looking for like the Lost wedding ring or change in the sand and I've always been intrigued to try it
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now 1980 metal detector I'm sure it wasn't too light so it's interesting that he had he had to cut back on his physical labor but he had to hoist this thing around and go because you have to
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wave it back and forth and you put it on your back and I'm sure is it are they heavy they're not that heavy no okay all
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right so hillier's wife would often pray Jason that they would discover their Fortune through this new found hobby she
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prayed please dear Lord will my husband find something the found me all the same continue to struggle until this one day
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in 1980 when outside the small town of weird Victoria Australia Hiller's dream became an unbelievable reality so while
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he was walking out with his metal detector hiler really did discover a gold nugget That Couldn't initially it was so big it couldn't be pulled out of
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the ground so he found the sink gave it a tug and he couldn't dislodge it from the earth so after many hours of digging they did manage to extract a gold nugget
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that weighed 61 pounds wow and he sold that gold nugget
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to the Golden Nugget Casino in Las seen that yeah yeah I got a picture of it it's there today it's there to yeah I
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saw it there when I was in Vegas a little bit ago I didn't realize that was I mean it's not that big I didn't realize it was 61 pounds I guess density
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right I mean it's big it's a obviously it's big but so $1 million yeah he got ripped off yeah I was gonna say so $1
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million in 1980 is 3 million today so still not a bad chunk of change Jason if you were
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given $3 million right now it change your life yes and the difference though here is it's not just that it's $1 million it's what the worth of gold is
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you have to put into you know what is gold worth in 1981 versus what it is worth today then do the inflation well
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that would be a lot of research that we don't do but let me do how much I know we don't do any research one pound of gold worth let's just do that right now
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yeah how much is one pound of gold worth right now as of right now Jason it's worth $21,000 so 61 time 22,000 oh you got
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about fair market value it's worth $1.3 million so he got fair market value wow I'm very surprised by that I know the 61
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pounds because you know you talk about panning for gold back in the day this guy found 61 pounds of it in one find you thought it'd be worth more but he actually got pound for pound he pretty
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much got what it was worth oh good for him yeah if I find a chunk of gold like that I don't really have the expertise
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to do anything with it so you have to rely on others to give you what it is that they're willing willing to spend on
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it good for him interesting that gold was formed that way I don't know if gold is formed that way in those kind of chunks is that common or is it is that
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why it's on display I think it's just on no I think it's on display because it goes along with the uh the casino but that's a pretty large nuet I think to
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find I don't think you find nuggets of gold that big in the world I'm not sure I'm not I've never no there are there are nuggets I I know that there's
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locations I think there's a park in the state somewhere you can go and people can find little nuggets and there's been bigger chunks and smaller chunks over
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the years but that's the biggest one ever though right the Australian one the biggest one ever I think so it's got to
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be yeah okay number nine J yeah so in January of 1999 an unnamed man was playing board
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game about Fine Art titled Masterpiece remember this game Ryan yeah okay so when I saw this I did some research I
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was like I think we play this so I went on YouTube YouTube has everything it's it's crazy you know Masterpiece gameplay went on YouTube somebody you know walked
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walked you through the game showed you the game pieces and I was like we played this game J we played Masterpiece yes do you remember what it's about or I can
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explain it you know it's funny an art dealer right yeah yeah you're an art dealer and you either gave money to the bank or art to the bank or you sold
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private auctions and people didn't know what your paintings were worth it was all randomized you could have a forgery and all this stuff was a fun game I
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can't believe we played this as kids but we did so it just dawn on me that yes we did play this game so the game uh Masterpiece uh he was playing this game
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so when he recognized a picture that was painted in a similar style to a painting he had bought to cover a hole in the wall of his Indiana home so talk about
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the odds of these two things happening right now right if he never played that game ever or happened to play that game
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you or didn't get that piece or that card the game Masterpiece deals with artwork and I believe they used real art yes yes they did like they would take
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real pieces of art so he saw something that was similar to in his house he was interest peaked and he started to do uh
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internet searches he came across a gallery in New York and sent them pictures and a description of what he
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had to get their assessment on it so after sending some of his pictures and a description of the painting in his home to experts at the gallery the owner was
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shocked to learned that his acquisition was actually a lost work by heed the piece was still in its original frame
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that's pretty cool yeah that's crazy original frame and it was in remarkable condition considering it was painted in
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the 1890s so this artist's name was Martin Johnson heed if anyone's interested so it was an American Artist
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Martin Johnson heed he's Magnolia on gold velvet cloth as the painting was titled was eventually purchased by the
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Houston Museum of Fine Arts for more than $1 million crazy but I've heard other even more local people somebody
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knew somebody who bought a painting at a garage sale right it end up being a
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local artist that was semif famous and renowned bought something like for like 10 bucks sold it for like 14,000 this
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actually happens quite not was it quite common it's common enough there's YouTube channels there's TV shows about this kind of stuff about you have something that's you know the Antique
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Road Show was big on this you know so you'd have what you thought was a 5cent knickknack but it ends up being know yeah $500,000 yeah so this guy he had this
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it's so weird oh he bought a painting to cover a hole in a wall I mean he's like I'm not going to do any drywall I'm not
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going to repair going go to like a garage sale to find a painting what put the hole in the wall did he punch the
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wall out of frustration one day that's what I love it's a journey he has a hole in the wall he doesn't fix it like you said he decides I'll just cover it up
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and then he happens to buy the picture that it is and he's playing a board game a game in 1999 Of All Times which this game is you know I think it's from the
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70s so this game already was 20 odd years old when he's like you know we probably played in the 80s you can't buy it anymore this is not a common game you can buy you can only buy it on eBay it's
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not made so this is all these things a lot of things had to align yeah all right that's fun all right number eight the Declaration of Independence now I
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didn't realize this about the decoration of independence but they made 200 first edition copies and they were made by a guy named John Dunlap guess it makes
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sense you know it's funny because they didn't have of course radio TV the internet of course so they created 200 first edition copies so that the message
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of the decoration could be carried Across the Nation I'd be interested to know where they ended up all 200 it'd be kind of fun just to know the story of
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each one who read it who opened it who were these read to cuz only 26 copies were known to survive that distribution
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that's so crazy so there might be still some out there right now yes or fragments or for sure and only three of them right now Jason are currently in
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the hands of private collectors so one such cop was discovered again behind a painting that the collector only bought because he liked the
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frame so he go goes to some sort of art collection Gallery I really like that frame so he takes apart the frame you know I guess to take the painting out
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that was in the frame so he buys literally buy yeah that's like when you go to like store Walmart and you buy the
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frame and you take out that little stock photo of the family in it yes that comes with the Fairing and there's a million
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dollar check behind it that's exactly what's happened here so he takes apart the frame apparently this first edition copy of the Declaration of Independence
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was quote unspeakably fresh and it was folded up behind the pitcher a friend of his encouraged him look you got to contact somebody to get this uh looked
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at and they did because of its remarkable condition it was auctioned first in 91 for 2 and half million not too shabby but it got re auctioned in
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2,000 for $8 million so the original guy gets two and half million sure but then the second
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person who owns it in 2000 got an 8 million talk about an investment right $8 million so $8 million in 2000 there
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is a bit of inflation in today's money $12.2 million that man that's a good chunk of change cu's what the 2 million
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91 would look like so 2 million 91 so the original oh he walked away three and a half million change your life what's weird about this though it's the
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Declaration of Independence in some ways doesn't it seem almost like it should be worth more maybe because there were
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still there's still 26 known copies to have survived so they're out there it's not though rare it's not I guess hyper
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rare it's not the only copy or one of five it's and there were 200 made granted but 26 are known to survive so it is rare I mean only three private
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collectors have one if you're rich you're one of those three can you imagine being hey check this out that's a pretty cool thing to see that's what I'm saying like of all the documents
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right sure in American history that you have a piece of of 350 plus million people who live in the United States
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there's like 26 of them anyway yeah that's good yeah all right this one's really interesting yeah it is in November of 1992 a farmer working in his
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fields in seul England when he realized he had lost his hammer a hammer yeah who really looks for the Lost Hammer but
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anyway knowing it could take years to search for it alone and not willing to give it up as lost and buy a new one he
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asked his friend Eric to bring his metal detector over and attempt to locate his missing tool is said go to the store buy
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a new one he actually calls his friend to get a metal detector all this time was spent in energy to find a hammer it would have taken less time and energy
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yes to go to the store and buy a new one go to the store and buy a new one maybe it was a really good Hammer I some hammers are quite expensive but it was
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his lucky day to have lost a hammer yeah not long into the search Eric picked up a signal so he began digging in the soil
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where his reading was strongest it quickly became apparent that he had not found the hammer but instead stumbled
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Ross something much more exciting after digging up a few shovels full of gold and silver coins Eric quickly contacted
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police and archaeologist to inform them of his Discovery they found what is now is now referenced as the hawk horde
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which is about 60 pounds of gold and silver objects including 15,000 coins that dated from Roman occupation of
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Great Britain it's crazy so Mr laws received over 2 and a half million from the British government as compens ation for his remarkable discovery which he
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split evenly with the landowner who eventually found the hammer which has sparked the inal the initial search I love the hammer still found I love it so
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two and a half million in 1992 this one is very interesting like I watched a little YouTube video on it I mean the
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little blur that we talked about here doesn't really describe the history of this horde backstory it's fascinating
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and all the little items that they did find what an amazing discovery the Roman occupation of Great Britain my understanding was is that this was like
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hidden the families would hide stuff from occupiers was that the idea from what I remember from the the little video that I had watched they believe
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that it was like a mixed family of a Roman and Britain and then they hid kind of maybe even sentimental or own
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personal historical significance to them what happened to those people that they didn't go back to redig it up I know this is well this ties into a couple
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things that we were talking about years the idea that something was buried and it was buried for a reason then not recovered their children's children
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didn't know about this they just get killed off died of disease or yeah and then the land just obviously had been
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occupied for generations and you happen to buy the land that is on having never dug in that area what was he doing with the hammer in that area seems like an
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odd what was he building cuz it was in a field maybe maybe a house or Shack or fence yeah fence put in post who knows
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we want to know our question is what were you building with that hammer so in today's money he was given $4.2 million nice yeah now I've heard of Opals this
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is number six I've heard of Opals I never thought anything of them but I guess they're something that's quite unique so in 99 a man that we'll call
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Bobby he was an older gentleman from Australia he decided to retire and to sell all his equipment he was a opal
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minor and he' been doing it for the last 20 years I watched the video and he seemed to be a probably at least 65 kind of the best health of shape so i' put
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him about 65 good age of retirement so he's been doing this for 20 odd years the last day on the job the last bucket
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on the last day of the job he noticed something in particular that was bigger than usual more shiny than usual
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it would happen to be a did you mention where it was yes so it was an Australia interesting another Australian yeah
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another Australian Discovery yeah Bobby worked carefully for months to reveal the beautiful opal which he eventually
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actually named The Royal one he kept it under his bed in a kangaroo skin pouch as well around his neck for more than 14
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years despite having the expertise to know just how potentially valuable was it was the last bucket on his last day of the job so he held on to this thing
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for 14 years I may have did my math a little bit wrong here I saw the video of him telling the story he looked a little bit older so maybe he retired around 55
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6 60 cuz he looked about 70 so anyways he uh held on to this thing for 14 years Jay when he finally showed it to an opal
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Jeweler and they bought it off of him for $3 million it was a 306 karat
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highquality black opal and it really is a beautiful looking piece of Jew yeah that's nice but he held on to it for 14 years he finally gave it up and he got 3
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million for it I don't know what his financial situation was before this let's hear the story it's only a minute and a half let's hear it prove what it
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was do not let his tough guy look deceive you it's top of its Class A Stone this beautiful can make even a
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grown man weep like a baby it made me cry when I saw it pretty sure it will make most people gosp at least when they
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see it look at that you were looking at one of the most precious valuable Opals in the world a once in a million
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lifetimes Discovery I think it's a miracle Bobby is the Australian Miner who found the opal after a long and hard
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career in mining he sold his tools and retired you get it when the good Lord's ready to give you a bit of it just then
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someone handed him one last bucket of dirt the dream of finding a stone like this that keeps them going every day
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something shiny caught Bobby's eye and after he chipped away at it for 6 months with a dentist drill this is what he
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found that gives you a bz I can tell you a 306 karat stone with the most impressive
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color Clarity and size and even for opal experts it takes their breath away is good or better than anything that's ever
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B fan Bobby is now ready to share his gem with the world it's just mesmerizing and he's picked Katherine jedar a Santa
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Fe jewelry designer to sell it the Hope Diamond of Australian opal she was born in Australia herself and jedar really
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loves her Opals but she never imagined in her Wildest Dreams to see one like this oh my goodness what Opals okay so
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this is a 306 karat one it's huge and is gorgeous okay so Opals is a hydrated amorphous form of silica it's classed as
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a mineral lyd opal is a sedimentary Stone it's a stone that we just have deemed to be valuable well because they
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shine and they have their oh it's that's a beautiful yeah in 1999 you got three and a half I just like doing the inflation because it tells you what
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you'd walk with today so you have $5.4 million you got this guy I do wonder what it would have been worth 14 years earlier I mean he must have been well
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enough off that he didn't feel the need to sell it right away that's a good point he probably wasn't panicking about it and as he got older he's maybe like oh maybe somebody would get a kick out
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of this and I I love how that young Jeweler is like just like this is amazing so I wonder what she made off of it i' be curious to know after she
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formed into jewelry I almost would be ashamed to to wreck it do anything to yeah well speaking of stones we're going to talk about another one the stone T
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the night is an incredibly rare mineral that can only be found in one place on Earth the African nation in Tanzania from which the gem gets its name I've
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never heard of a tanzanite oh yeah I I have okay what it was or what it is I I couldn't tell you and it makes sense that you know the name derives from
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Tanzania right the Rarity of Tanzanite makes it extremely valuable and Mining this gem provides a valuable source of income for many budding entrepreneurs
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and treasure hunters in the country of Tanzania out of all the people who spend their lives searching for Tan night so Mr
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laser must be considered the luckiest in June of 2020 his mining operation Tanzania recovered the two largest
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examples of the mural ever recorded weighing 20 lb and 11 lb wow which he sold to the Tanzanian government for
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more than $3.4 million amazingly laser wasn't ready to retire after his new Fortune just two months later in August
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of 2020 reports of jusy found another huge piece of Tanzanite weighing 14 lb worth an estimated 2 million thankfully
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he found these Stones because laser has 30 children to care for I know there are nations in Africa that practice polygamy
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I would assume this is what's going on here it can't be one woman bearing 30 kids or a lot of girlfriends he still
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promises to build a school and a medical center so well his kids have to go somewhere for school yeah true that's true that's crazy yeah what was it
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between the three yeah three and a half and so5 and half million dollars he walks away with not bad those are just three of the stones
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he's probably obviously been mining for some time that yeah so that's why he's probably not retiring he's just sounds
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like he's smart keeps working found more knowing this guy he's like you know what I've done it twice at the end of the day he'll still just have a job and wants to
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build the community sounds like a decent guy yeah as far as Stones go it's beautiful too we can get a clean Beast
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out of it we see the shape we try to get out of it if whatever is appropriate to make a round of it or a trillion out of it or an emerald cut out
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of it whatever is more appropriate whichever can give us a better yield for the stone a better color for the stone we preform it oh interesting looking
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Stone wonder what it's formed of that it's only there yeah I don't that's something everyone can Google Now this one's really interesting so we've been
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talking a lot about stones and gold and what have you but this is an interesting find this is number four in the UK there's obviously many archaeological
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finds there due to the world's history in the UK valuable medals such as gold and silver I didn't know this but gold and silver J in the UK cannot be sold
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privately you have to turn it over to the government and the museums and what have you'll still get What's called the finders fee like The hawky Horde guy you'll get a finders fee but you can't
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sell it on eBay or private auctions but you can with copper so this next item wasn't covered by those laws this was a
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mask it was a Roman calary helmet it was an unbelievable condition sorry I just want to clarify is a bronze mask bronze
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mask that's right sorry this is a bronze ceremonial Roman Calvary helmet and this is really interesting because it was
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only one of three I think that we have in the world today that has a complete what's called a face mask because of its Rarity and the fact that it could be
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purchased by anybody so it's open to the world public you know to buy this helmet it was sold for $3.6 million in 2010 and I don't know if you saw a picture of
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this helmet it's hard to describe to our listen but wow yeah so this is what's crazy so it's like a conical helmet it's
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a cone on top and then even the top of the helmet itself has this intricate like horse
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carving and then around the hairline it's it looks like a hair has been made to look like hair curly hair and there's an actual face mask to protect the face
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it's kind of like a death mask yeah a death mask yeah that's crazy but I love how his eyes nose and mouth like you wouldn't even have to necessarily have
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that to protect your face from but it's like artistically done this will protect your face from being hit from arrows let's say or ceremonial sure
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fair enough so it's for show that must be heavy to wear too it can't be light on your head I don't have any indication here how much it weighs but that would
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be very cool to find that it literally looks like somebody's real face and this was found by another metal metal
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detector I got to buy one I got to try it out well you won't find any Roman artifacts of Victoria J but yeah you
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might find something well maybe gold yeah gold for sure that Vancouver Island was a gold mining town at one point yeah
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that's a cool find yeah it was so another historical find in the Europe area this one is the Staffordshire horde
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it was another metal detectorist named Terry was searching a field in Lichfield England in July 2009 and came across an
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area with a uniquely strong signal almost immediately after breaking the surface of the ground the man knew he discovered something special as he
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started to uncover an astonishing stash of gold weapons and ornaments that had Lin undisturbed beneath the surface for
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over 1,300 years man that's cool yeah it is just another we're going to bury this
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stash of stuff with a hop of coming back to it yep and dealing with it later a lot of War treasure in the world has been that way you know sunken ships or
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stuff like the convoys and they just get lost and nobody knows where they are there still out there there's still stuff out right now treasure chests yeah
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now it's become known as the Staffordshire horde referred to as a ward horde dating back from 600 to
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650 which is an especially turbulent period of England's history experts believe that the items were captured in battle by armies from the kingdom of
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Mercia which was at war with the neighboring regions of North Umbria and East Anglia at the time although how it
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came to be buried in a field far from any known buildings or roads we will probably never know so I'm envisioning
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this guy going they pillage a home actually it wouldn't just be one area right you would think that they would go
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like I'm going to pillage this house and this house and and they just gather all their stuff that they're stealing from other people or places of business or
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whatever and then seeing some guy just digging in the middle of a field maybe putting a a marker there or something they must have tried to mark it with
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something yeah fascinating so the hord was purchased by Birmingham Museum for more than 4.3 million and it's still
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available for the public de view I agree with the government on this one that it's kind of nice for let other people view this let the person get that
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finders feed great but it's nice to let other people view this it is of historical significance yes Indiana Jones that's what he was about it
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belongs in the museum so anyway 4.3 but uh the money was split evenly between the guy who found it and the land owner
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nice sir what year was that again 2009 4.3 million in 2009 it's a little bit of a there' be a little bit of be a little
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bit of a bump I so 5.4 so about a million yeah 2.7 each that's not bad I'll take it yeah for
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your $300 metal detector that's a pretty good investment a lot of people are going to be doing metal detectors now I have been tempted to do it it does seem
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intriguing sure no shame in that now this one's really funny number two Jason I love this one so this is another painting much like our earlier story of
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the heeds Mongolia on Golden gold velvet cloth painting there's a painting here called Christ mocked it's by an Italian
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artist I apologize for my pronunciation his last name was simu now this painting
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Jason hung over a stov top in a French Farmhouse for decades and the owners
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just thought it was a religious Russian Relic from days gone by and over time Decades of being over the stove it was
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darkened by the stove's Heat and grease and dirt it wasn't until 2019 when the old lady living in the house was going to move into a
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retirement home it was inspected somebody who came in to categorize her house and her belongings just to see if anything was worth as they basically
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going to strip the house apart either to tear it down and build a new one or so they probably said hey Mom you're too
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old to be here but you have so much stuff let's just do an auction it's kind of like like a garage sale the painting was looked at they like this painting
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looks kind of unique or interesting and it was it was one original it original painting of course one of only 11 by
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this artist so this guy didn't paint and release very much but he's well known cuz you kind of changed the style of
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painting back in the day it was sold this is a big one Jay because of it's rare Rarity and by the artist that it
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was painted by it was sold for $27 million and it went to the woman that's awesome the reason why it was also sold for so
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much because this was a private auction this was put up for auction it was purchased by two us-based collectors who
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specialized in Italian Renaissance art but the French tried to stop it by imposing a 30-month ban on the export they're trying to raise money so that
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the painting could remain in France and eventually be displayed in the Lou but uh those Americans bought it out oof I understand France wanted to keep it but
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uh Money Talks right what's interesting with this painting Jason is that it hung you know over the store for decades so
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you know kids are growing up they're seeing that think of our grandparents jie I remember our grandparents having like paintings in their house something
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you and I would see we would see for years they had the same paintings up in their home same artwork whatever it was that's what these people experienc you
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know these kids the kids have had kids and Grandma just happens to have this painting on her stove toop that it probably everyone saw and little did
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they know what they were holding that's so weird it's one of 11 paintings so that's what's fascinating by the story alone is just who purchased it was this
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given as a gift and the gift was given to someone else and then it would landed in their home it's just yeah what a journey that painting must have gone through but there's no history of that I don't think it doesn't sound like it
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fascinating well speaking of Russia I mean they thought that was a Russian religious Relic this is actually a Russian Relic that I'm going to talk
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about is the third Imperial Easter egg by Fabro and and this is about a $33
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million Relic the Russian Revolution is famous for many things the eventual rise of Communism the demises of the Romanov
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royal family the last monarchs in Russian history and the confiscation eventual sale of numerous golden bejweled eggs created by Master artist
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Peter Carl fabri by the incoming regime fabri eggs not only hold remarkable value because of the cost and materials used in their creation and their
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fabulous designs but also because they are the last remaining relics of the Royal Family in Russia you would think that with Incredible notoriety fabra
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eggs would be quite easy to identify and locate but due to the secretive nature of stalen sales of the eggs to private
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buyers in Western countries eight of the Imperial eggs created for members of the Russian royal family are still missing today wow you have this royal family
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they have this artist Peter fabra he makes these eggs and then you got Stalin comes in takes over the country he takes
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these eggs sells them off he collects the money rather than keeping it yeah they was sold to Western countries well
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yeah so you got like Americans buying and then supplying money to yeah it's just kind of like dirty
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money really dirty money yeah well yeah again money walks private auctions I guess I should have guessed that fabra was a person but honestly if you would
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asked me before this podcast I would have told you it was just the the style of an egg the artwork of an egg I didn't realize it was the Creator's name was
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fabra can't you replicate this creation today don't they do this today as an artwork oh I'm sure people seen one the
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word fabri eggs honestly I thought it was like chocolate no at least I'm more on track than you are but I knew that
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they were like a very delicate art style of an egg and I think they are made today like they're replicated that artwork and I don't think they're cheap
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anyways cuz still they're cheap to purchase but I think people professionally make the egg styled after the Creator Fab so you have Western
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people buying these eggs so somehow it comes back you know so it comes back to the US so when a man from the Midwest happened across the third Imperial
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Easter egg at a jumble sale so I guess the a garage sale the intention behind him spending $114,000 on acquiring this
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unique piece of art was not based on knowledge of art or Russian history but from a desire to melt it down and profit from raw materials that the consisted of
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what what did he be inside there well he just saw oh here's raw materials that I can make something else like crafting
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this is what they do in video games they take they take an item they break it down to get other items from it those are video game NS listening to this I understand what I'm talking about like
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so upon appraisal however the unnamed man realized he had paid more than the eggs gold and jewels were worth
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$14,000 a lot of money is a lot of money but he realized that what he bought wasn't worth in the raw materials
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$14,000 that's right so he thought oh I made a huge error and lost a lot of money so in desperation the man searched
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the words egg and Vashon Constantine the words engraved around the clock on the artwork he saw that he goes yeah let me
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look up what this might mean yeah yeah so this fbet egg opens up about halfway to reveal a watch inside or a clock on
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the inside so it closes and opens this gold egg opens up to reveal a clock around that clock is the words Vashon
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Constantine and he stubbled across an article in a British newspaper the egg he thought would lose him money was
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actually worth something in the region of 33 million in 2014 that's how much was worth but it was sold privately yeah
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at an unknown price actual unknown price wow it's worth 33 but I guarantee we s it for more yeah can you Google V Von
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Constantine what does what does that mean sure is it somebody's name or yeah is it a person place oh so Vashon Constantine it's the oldest manufacturer
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of fine watches it's a Swiss luxury watch wow fabri makes this egg and inside of that egg he had ear watch
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maker yeah it's small it's not it's not even a clock really it is literally the size of a small wristwatch the diameter
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they were founded in 1755 so there you go very cool so even by the time it was commissioned to make this egg they were around for quite a while all right so we
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didn't mention at the beginning of the episode what we do Jason and I is we take the best of something out of that best there's always something that's the
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worst it's not necessarily in the order of how we present things and what have you we understand in this list yes go up and value monetarily speaking so Jason I
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didn't want to say well of course the worst thing would be the least valuable as far as purchases go well that's no fun because then then we're just talking about money so how we're going to do it
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is basically we have these 10 items in your home Jason and it's like your own little Museum of stuff in your home but you have to get rid of one of them I
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think it's is the easiest way to do which one is the least interest to you to keep for yourself I think the least the least interesting right so we'll go through the list really quick so which
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one would you get rid of so you have this display in your home to show your friends and family look at my museum of found stuff and which one would you be
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the least least interested in showing somebody okay so you got your 61b gold nut you've got the uh painting that covered
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the whole of the wall Magnolia's on a gold velvet cloth you've got a copy of the Declaration of Independence the one
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of the original 200 you've got the uh gold and jewelry and uh other artifacts that were found in the field with the
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Lost hammer called The hawne Horde you've got the black opal found in Australia you've got a 20 lb 11 lb and a
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14 lb tanite Stone from Tanzania you've got the Roman helm helmet the copper Roman helmet with a face mask bronze
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bronze thank you then you got the Staffordshire horde it was the it was the war horde yeah there's a gold weapons ornaments it's beautiful
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collection it's an amazing collection so if you want to see his Google staffers Shir horde then you've got the uh the painting above the stove top called
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Christ mocked very interesting painting in its own right take a look at that online and lastly you have that Fab egg
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from Russia by Peter car Fab with the clock inside so Jason which one of these
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10 are you uh taking out of your collection in your home the tanzanite Stone o really why that one yeah it's
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just feels kind of boring to me I mean it's a beautiful stone and stuff but the story behind it the any historical
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significance the wow factor just doesn't have the draw of some of these other uh stories have yeah so we if you're
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showing people this your Museum when you get to the tanzanite Stone you're kind of like yeah this guy you know he dug a few times and got lucky and found bigger
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pieces of the tanzanite Stone which might sound similar to the opal but the opal is gorgeous well the opal's gorgeous exactly you want to look at that you want to hold it you want to
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touch it it's it's and I liked his story even his story of bucket on yeah holding
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on to for 14 years and in a kangaroo pouch under his bed it chipped away with the dentist to that to me is a more intriguing
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storyline yeah I'm agreeing with you tanzanite Stone the pictures are pretty bland though it's rare the the thing it is rare and it's only formed in Tanzania
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so its Rarity makes it valuable and that's just how some things work of a stone itself I don't see much value in it doesn't look like much I mean people
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do mine for and sell it it's worth something it's you know obviously it's probably used for jewelry and decorations that's a supply and demand right the supply is rare and the demand
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is high so but yeah if it was on display in my home like this guy was a minor locked out man he just struck gold or
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struck tanzanite gold twice and he lucked out but the stone itself isn't that impressive to really look at that and the story behind it yeah and he's
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got 30 kids man wrap it up all right so all right so there you go he's got to find more T tonight yeah he's got to
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find more T because they're gonna have grandchildren oh boy they're coming after him yeah if H kid had two kids oh my goodness and then those kids had two
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kids oh all right well well thanks for joining us everyone I hope you enjoyed a little bit of a lighter episode on basically people striking at Rich by
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happen stance and luck so there you go I G to buy a metal detector and take my chances I think right after we hang up on this recording I'm GNA start googling
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you're going to Google metal detectors metal detectors I'll be on a walk with my kids at the beach and there Hey look it's Uncle Jason scouring the beach pathetically some torn clothes and he
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looks like he hasn't shaved in 5 months I find it I will find it that's not far from the truth just minus the metal
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detector right now oh stop it remember in front of every Silver Lining there's a cloud and today it was tan night
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