12 MOST AMAZING TREASURES FOUND RECENTLY BY ACCIDENT IN 2023

12 MOST AMAZING TREASURES FOUND RECENTLY BY ACCIDENT IN 2023

TREASURES FOUND RECENTLY | let’s see toddy’s recent treasures found in 2023.

 TREASURES FOUND RECENTLY

 

TREASURES FOUND IN 2023

You never know what secret treasures might be lurking in a thrift store in an attic or down the back of your sofa and an
innocuous purchase you made years ago for a few dollars might turn out to be worth 1000s. Today, every story you're about to see in this historytomystery site has one thing in common.

There are valuable and wonderful treasures found bought and sold in the most remarkable circumstances. Every garden that enters mass production was once nothing more than a prototype.

And if you can find one of those prototypes hidden away somewhere, it can make a valuable acquisition.

Take this pair of CITRI on Deux chevaux cars as an example. The TPV prototypes were tested on the first day of it on a circuit in your hand Loire in France in 1939.

And then when their testing duties were over, they were consigned to a barn buried under bales of straw. That's where they stayed until 1994 When they were discovered by accident. As the barn was being cleared out.

 A Crane had to be summoned. To lift them out through the barn roof carefully once they were outside and could be examined properly. A century of staff was amazed to find that they were in such good condition.

 They were still wearing their original tires. They went on to be stars of the Paris retro mobile Car Show in 1998 and would likely be worth millions of dollars today if Citron ever decided to part with them.

Dan Dotson is best known for being the star of the television show Storage Wars. So you'd have thought that he would know better than to sell his storage unit cheaply. without checking what was inside.

But he didn't know that soon sold a unit in Indio, California after the owner of the unit had failed and maintained payments on it. He only got $500 in return for it.

 The new owners quickly found a safe inside their unit. When they opened it up. They got the shock of their lives. It contained seven and a half million dollars in cash. From there, things got complicated.

 The original owner unit contacted an attorney and the new owners of the safe and the cash found themselves facing a difficult legal dilemma to avoid going to court they accepted an offer of $1.2 million to return the unit and the rest of the cash to its original owner. Some people might see that as a $6 million loss.

Think 1.2 million is a pretty good return on a $500 investment. You might have heard of the Schmidt family.

They make treasure hunting their family business and they've had some pretty impressive successes over the years, but none as amazing as the collection of 51 coins they found while diving off the coast of Florida in 2015.

The coins came from a 300-year-old Spanish and included an ultra-rare coin called the tricentennial royal, which was minted specifically for Spanish King Felipe the fifth.

That coin alone is worth half a million dollars and accounts for half the value of the entire hall as well as all coins they also managed to recover a solid gold chain then 40 feet long.

Unfortunately for them, they don't get to keep the full value of their five. State law means that some of the money has to be shared with the Florida government. So it was a good day for the politicians and officials of Florida.

When the treasure was found to. Back in 1992, a sugarcane plantation worker in Colombia accidentally drove his tractor into a hole in the ground that had suddenly opened up in front of him.

He had no way of knowing it at the time, but he discovered the hiding place of the long lost polygon of treasure.

Instead of reporting it to the authorities. He pocketed some of the gold items he found in the hole and walked away. But he made the mistake of telling some friends, and they told their own friends, and the Malecon a gold rush began.

Tragically that led to the loss plundering and desecration of countless tombs and artifacts belonging to a previously unknown Colombian culture.

It's suspected that many of the items were melted down for gold, but that doesn't take away from the beauty and wonder of the artifacts that we still have. The site is believed to be around 2000 years old, making the people who buried their dead here part of the Lima culture of the time.

We know little about them, but their golden silver work is incredible. That last story was one of an ancient treasure. But here's a much more modern tale of an accidentally discovered fortune.

When Canadian Gregorio de centas finally gave in to his sister's insistence that he should clean out his closet and throw away his old junk. He came across a coat that he hadn't worn in a while, deciding to check the pockets before he threw it out.

He found a lottery ticket and you can probably guess what happened next? He checked in to find out if it was a winner. And it transpired that Gregorio was the winner of an unclaimed $1.35 million lottery prize from 10 months earlier.

He bought the ticket in his native Montreal in December 2017 and then simply forgot about it.

If it hadn't been for his sister, it might still be there now. Gregorio plans to use the money to fund his retirement, but we expect that he bought his sister an expensive thank-you gift for some metal detectors spend years scouring fields looking for something valuable, and never find anything at all. Other metal detectors strike it lucky on their very first day.

 There's a three-year-old boy in Hockley England who might just be the luckiest metal Detectorist of all time. James Hiatt had only been using his instrument for a few minutes when he got a positive response from beneath his feet and called his father, Jason 34 year old dad helped him to dig eight inches below the ground, and they unearthed a solid gold reliquary.

The container dates back to the early 16th century and would have been used to contain religious relics possibly even the ashes of someone close to the reliquaries owner. It's so ornate with its carving of the Virgin Mary on one side and three hearts on the other.

That is thought it may have even belonged to someone in the house of King Henry the treasurer has been valued at just over $3 million which will be split between the Hyatt family and the landowner when it's sold.

We have no idea who donated this beautiful antique Chinese vase to a thrift store in Hertfordshire, England.

They probably spent everyday sense cursing their poor judgment. The thrift store is likely to be quite upset to they sold it for a little more than $1.

But its true value is more than half a million. The pretty yellow vase has been identified as the property of the clean long Emperor means it would have been made somewhere between 1735 and 1796.

The rows of the Emperor's family is clearly marked on the side of the vase, which should have meant that it stayed inside the royal palace. So how it came to be in England so many years later is unknown.

After having the vase professionally valued, the lucky shopper who wishes to remain anonymous had an auction.

Unsurprisingly, it was bought by a wealthy collector in China. And so it's now finally gone back home.

A woman walking to work one morning in Manhattan found that painting laying on a pile of trash caught her eye and she just knew she couldn't leave it lying where it was.

Her name was Elizabeth Gibson, and she made the right call. She can't really explain why the painting had such an effect on her.

But if she hadn't stepped in and saved it from the trash, the world would have lost a priceless Rufino Tamayo masterpiece worth billions of dollars.

The painting is called Trace person and was completed by the Mexican artist in 1970. To give the story a twist, it was stolen from a warehouse in 1987. And that was the last anyone saw of it until the day it got thrown out in 2007.

Police believed that whoever ended up owning it realized the piece was stolen and threw it away to wash their hands of it.

Kindhearted Elizabeth tried to return it to its original owner, but the owner decided to sell it and split the proceeds with her. She got her reward from Jordan from Hampshire England and took her jewelry box to a valuer in 2011.

 It was because she wanted her engagement ring to be assessed for insurance purposes. To her annoyance. The valuer appeared to be far more interested in a pink-orange Topaz brooch instead of Thea the brooch was a $20 purchase that she'd thought little of and allowed her four-year-old daughter to play dress up with the valuer immediately recognized it for what it really was, though, part of a 19th century.

Tiara once worn by a Russian Zarina all 27 of the cornerstones surrounding the centerpiece were actually diamonds and the Topaz stone is flawless and weighs 20 carats.

The vibrant pink shade marks it out as an imperial stone of the type that was reserved exclusively for the use of the Russian Royals of the arrow. Her daughter was sad to lose her plaything but the understandably cashed in on her lucky find and sold it for just under $50,000.

If you had something incredibly valuable that you didn't want anyone else to find, where would you put it? A safe perhaps a storage unit? How about a freezer? That was the approach taken by an eccentric senior citizen in Wiltshire, England, and the extent of her valuable stash, only came to light after she passed away.

The woman was a hoarder and in piled her ramshackle home high with piles of possessions from her long life. The paint was flaking off the walls, and the house was rotting away. But when her freezer was open, it was found to contain a 16th and 17th century treasure trove with $150,000.

The most valuable single item was the renaissance era. Gem and enamel pendant with a value of $40,000.

But there was also a sapphire and Ruby pendant from 17th century Italy, worth 20,000. The items are stored with their original receipts to prove that she was the rightful owner and the freezing process hadn't damaged them at all nor the frozen leg of lamb that was right next to them.

Laura Stoffer was just another thrift store shopper looking for a bargain when she came across an attractive print that caught her eye.

The printer was of the 19th century painting shepherds called by Walter hunt. A picture of a colleague that had always been a favorite of Laura's.

She paid a few dollars for it and took it home. She didn't much care for the frame that it came in, so she took it off to replace it with one of her own.

When she did something far more valuable was revealed. An original poster for the classic movie, All Quiet on the Western Front from 1930.

Realizing that there's always a market for classic movie memorabilia, she quickly had her painting appraised and was understandably delighted to be told it was worth $15,000.

She was even happier with the final sale price at the auction. It outperformed a testament and went for $18,000. Nobody ever said that stumbling across valuable treasure is always a glamorous person.

And nobody knows that better than Thai fisherman genres tea and chalk, who made himself rich by finding a massive chunk of solidified whale vomit in 2018.

Whale vomit is called ambergris and contains a substance called Ambree Ambreen is heavily sought after by perfume manufacturers because it helps the scent of perfume lasts for a longer time than it would without the peace found by generous Wade 14 pounds and had washed up on a beach and coast someway.

He suspected it was ambergris, but waited almost a year to contact the authorities because he was afraid they would steal it.

Luckily for him, they didn't. Instead, they confirmed that his junk of smelly wax was a thing and he's now on his way to selling it for an estimated $320,000. It would take him 86 years to earn that amount of money working as a fisherman.

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