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36 extraordinary treasures that were discovered by ordinary people [Music] take one you wake up get ready go to work it's a usual day none of us expects something unusual or different in our day-to-day lives every day is the same it comes and goes take two you wake up you get ready and as soon as you go for gardening you discover an antique treasure that could cost a fortune and you are rich overnight the day will not be the same as all the other days the list of these people is where they are themselves taken aback when they are doing nothing exceptional but end up finding an extraordinary treasure a man named terry herbert while searching farmland found some gold artifacts and this discovery led to further examination in upcoming days english heritage a registered charity paid archaeologists for digging which led them to unearth more than 3 500 different individual items that were bought by the birmingham museum and art gallery bought more than 3 million pounds at an auction this incident took place in 2009 in 2013 a couple discovered 1 427 different liberty head coins that were buried in sierra nevada california it is considered to be the largest discovery of gold coins in the history of the united states the coins had a face value of 28 000 back in the late 19th century cliff bradshaw a british man while detecting on rangelmere farm excavated a gold cup that was dented after researching it was claimed to be a bronze age artifact the dented cup led to many other discoveries and was sold around 500 k in 1912 a shepherd boy of ukrainian stumbled over a golden vessel he found himself in the grave of cubret who was the founder of the first bulgarian empire the treasure trophy discovered contained gold stuff jewelry an iron sword making the items 800 in the count in 1949 three brothers of bulgaria unearthed the most valuable treasure ever discovered in the history of the country the panageri's treasure is made up of nine items and has the origin of the third or fourth century bcd items were perfectly decorated and considered to be priceless a series of manuscripts which was mostly made up of religious writings was discovered near the dead sea when found in fragments researchers decided to assemble it astonishingly that manuscript turned out to be created in the 3rd century bce and 1st century c they are considered to be the oldest surviving manuscript of the hebrew bible and hold great religious and cultural significance in 2009 a college graduate of england unearthed a helmet which was later named crosby garrett helmet it was auctioned for 3.6 million dollars and beautifully stands in a private exhibition set up in the house of the owner in 1980 hand of faith was unearthed by an australian metal detectorist named kevin hillier it is entitled as the second largest in the world as it is a 960 ounce nugget presently it is being displayed at the golden nugget casino in las vegas nevada rarely found ty cobb baseball cards were discovered by an eight-year-old in his attic the cards that he found are of the year 1901 and are not more than 15 in number greek divers while diving 190 off the coast of antikythera successfully discovered treasures from a ship that sank in 65 bc the treasure consisted of pottery bronze statues weapons and a weird mechanism which is known to be the world's oldest analog computer in the year 1820 while digging his field to gather stones a farmer came across a statue which is now considered to be the most famous in the world the statue currently is displayed at the louvre museum in paris and claimed to be established around 150 bc in 2015 a vast array of treasure was found near the coast of colombia san jose galleon is considered to be a spanish vessel carrying a huge amount of gold silver and other emeralds to peru the vessel was destroyed by a british ship during the war of spanish succession in 1998 indonesian fishermen discovered a boat that was later claimed to have been sailing from africa to china it is believed that the ship along with millions of dollars worth of rubies crystal and sapphire sank off the coast of indonesia around 830 ad in 1840 england a group of workers in cuidale discovered more than eight 600 pieces of viking silver it is believed to be of the 9th century this discovery was the largest collection outside of russia this massive viking silver collection was unearthed by a man named james mather in 2015 over 200 anglo saxon coins and other various pieces of precious metals of vikings were found to james surprise the whole treasure is worth 1.8 million dollars today in 2008 a treasure hunter named mike demar found a chalice with the help of his metal detector this discovery was made in key largo florida the value of the chalice was then estimated to be 1.3 million dollars as it was 385 years old a tiny sculpture of a lioness woman was discovered in the early 20th century by a man named sir leonard wooley in iraq the experts after researching claim that it was sculpted around 3000 bc in mesopotamia it is one of the oldest artifacts of human civilization and has a worth of over 57 million dollars an amateur treasure hunter from mexico in 1989 while scanning the nearby area with the help of his metal detector unearthed a giant 26.6 pound golden nugget that seemed like a boot it was then named the boot of cortez the hoxney horde was discovered in the village of suffolk england it was then purchased by the british museum in london for 4.3 million dollars it is believed to be a fourth century roman artifact in 1799 the treasure of natchez and myklos was discovered in central europe it is made up of 23 gold vessels and weighs around 22 pounds it is being displayed in the kunst the storage's museum no clear evidence related to its origin could be found to date a group of people in the netherlands with their common hobby of exploring lead in the discovery of a big wooden treasure chest in the middle of the forest the contents of the box are still a mystery as the people never got to open the wooden treasure box in 1985 renovation work was in process in an old building of esro to slaska as the building demolished the workers found a vase beneath the foundation that contained 3 000 silver coins of the 14th century after a couple of years another building was knocked down and many more artifacts were discovered a group of workmen while repairing the embankment of the river ripple in cuidale discovered a lead box inside the box there were hordes of viking treasures contributing to 86-0 items that included silver coins jewelry and silver ingots in 2013 while renovating a house a contractor named david gonzalez discovered a scarce edition of action comics in which superman makes his initial appearance the addition sat in a minnesota home's wall for over 75 years it costs gonzales almost fifty thousand dollars of the total price the third most valuable painting by martin johnson head had been covering a hole in the wall of an indiana home one day the family played a game about out and it was only then they realized that the painting hung there was called magnolias on gold velvet cloth in the vineyard of castana the pieces having origin between the 3rd and 7th centuries were found in 1978. prislav was first conquered in between 969 and 972 and these amazing items were hidden away to keep them out of the hands of the victors roger bailon an entrepreneur from the 1950s left his farm to his grandsons before dying when his grandsons became adults they went to the farm and discovered many cars that were rusted the cars were pre-war automobiles and have a value of 15 million dollars in 2003 an iraqi treasure called treasure of nimrod was discovered the treasure managed to survive over the periods of unrest and looting the treasure contains a golden crown and 613 pieces of gold jewelry along with precious stones created in the 8th or 9th century bc the florentine diamond having indian origin was discovered by a medici family it is believed that after the medici family handed over the diamond to the imperial family of australia when world war 1 broke out the imperial family was forced into exile and took the diamond along with them after that the diamond was never seen again the siebenberg house artifacts theo siebenberg the owner of a jewish crater in old city israel uncovered a cache of various items of archaeological significance he bought the house in 1970 and after 18 years of digging beneath it he uncovered the ancient era buried in the soil with time he discovered some rooms and even sites of ritual baths known as mikvis used 3 000 years ago during the reign of kang solomon in 2011 an ancient palace was undergoing renovations when the workers uncovered three boxes containing gold and silver ornaments weighing about three kilograms and 80 kilograms the boxes had not been opened for the centuries and were locked in a storehouse these boxes belonged to the mallet kings of twelve oad in september 2013 during an archaeological excavation in jerusalem the awful treasure was discovered that consisted of 36 gold coins a medallion that has a menard depicted on it along with two others as well as a coil and a couple of pendants that were ornamented on a tourist scroll these items belong to the byzantine period in the year 2007 salvage firm odyssey marine exploration found a staggering 500 million dollars worth of gold and silver coins using a metal detector according to the odyssey the gold was being carried by the spanish frigate nuestro senora de los mercedes but in the middle of the journey the ship was wrecked and the treasure sank along in 1804. this shipwreck itself is the treasure titanic made her voyage in the year 1912 but unfortunately the ship met a fatal accident and sunk in the north atlantic the discovery of this ship was made after 70 years of its accident in the year 1985. in 1985 the sunken mother lode was found near the coast of key west florida the ship was referred to as the atacha and was loaded with a treasure in 1622 when she left havana the ship sailed into a hurricane and sunk into the depths of the ocean in 2016 the oldest shipwreck from europe's age of exploration was authenticated vasco de gama's esmeralda which was wrecked in a storm in 1503 was recovered it was originally found in 1998 but it was not excavated until two decades later the ship bell rare coins and other artifacts helped in identifying the ship [Music] you