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A couple of street sweepers made a rare find in Tennessee when they picked up a coin. The two men said they often pick up coins that have been tossed on the ground, but the one they found on Wednesday was different than the rest.
"I hollered, 'Albert look here what I found!' And we looked at it, it's a 1736 silver coin," said Jonathan Bowman ...
Full Article: Rare 1730s coin found on street in Tenn. - ABC7.com
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The luckiest find many people ever make is a washed out ten pound note in their back pocket.
But a family from Dronfield have made a much more lucky discovery. It happened when they decided to get rid of an old mahogany box that had been kicking around their house for 30 years ...
Full Article: Treasure trove found in Dronfield - BBC News
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Treasure hunting season is well underway in the waters off of the coast of Indian River County. Captain Greg Bounds, Brent Brisben, and their team of treasure hunters found a four foot cannon and 22 gold coins just off of the coast of Indian River Shores on Sunday.
They estimate the coins are worth around $150,000 and date back to 1698. The canon is...
Full Article: Treasure hunters find gold off coast of Indian River County - WPTV.com
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Several additional appellate briefs and amicus briefs have been filed with the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Odyssey Marine Exploration’s (NasdaqCM:OMEX) “Black Swan” case.
The filings support Odyssey’s argument that the trial court erred in dismissing the case because the recovered coins did not belong to Spain and therefore do not qualify for sovereign immunity, Spain did not have possession of the coins, and sovereign immunity only applies to vessels exclusively on a non-commercial mission.
Among the briefs were two separate filings by groups of descendants whose ancestors owned the cargo shipped aboard the Mercedes. The trial court actually missed the basis of their claims calling them “descendants of those aboard the Mercedes.” [click to continue…]
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Archaeologists in Jaffa have uncovered a rare gold coin bearing the likeness of French Emperor Napoleon III, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) said Sunday.
The ten franc coin was minted in Paris in 1856 and is made almost completely of pure gold (93%), the IAA said in a statement ...
Full Article: Rare gold coin of Napoleon III found in Jaffa dig - Earth Times
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Odyssey Marine Exploration, Inc. (NasdaqCM: OMEX) has filed its Appellate Brief in the “Black Swan” case with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
In the brief, Odyssey demonstrates that the district court erroneously dismissed the case by using flawed legal analysis and by failing to acknowledge or understand several major aspects of the case, including the issue of sovereign immunity.
Odyssey’s brief cites the recent favorable ruling by the Eleventh Circuit for the salvor in the Aqua Log (Aqua Log, Inc. vs. State of Georgia, 594 F.3d 1330, 11th Cir. 2010) case. This ruling was made shortly after the district court ruled in the “Black Swan” case and is a beneficial clarification of sovereign immunity in support of Odyssey’s position. [click to continue…]
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Odyssey Marine Exploration, Inc. (NasdaqCM: OMEX), pioneers in the field of deep-ocean shipwreck exploration, has reported results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2010
Revenue for the first quarter was $2.9 million, compared to $0.6 million in the first quarter 2009. The Company also reported a net loss of $3.1 million, compared to a net loss of $5.3 million in 2009. The net loss per share for the first quarter was $0.05, compared to a net loss of $0.10 per share in the first quarter 2009. [click to continue…]
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A Winnipeg man has uncovered a cache of old currency stashed in the basement ceiling of his home during a renovation project.
Fred Murray bought a bungalow in the city's Elmwood neighbourhood last spring and recently decided to tackle a basement project... When he encountered trouble feeding an electrical wire through the ceiling, he started to remove the panels ...
Full Article: Treasure trove found in Winnipeg ceiling - CBC News
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Archaeologists unearthed 383 bronze coins dating back to King Ptolemy III who ruled Egypt in the 3rd century B.C. and was an ancestor of the famed Cleopatra, the Egyptian antiquities authority announced Thursday.
The statement said one side of the coins were inscribed with hybrid Greek-Egyptia...
Full Article: Egypt finds hoard of 2,000-year-old bronze coins - The Washington Post
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