Valuable treasures people couldn't keep
lovemoney staff
20 April 2022
Finders but not keepers
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A huge Viking treasure chest
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A huge Viking treasure chest
British Museum, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Gold bars in the garden
BAY/CC BY-SA 4.0/Wikimedia Commons
Gold bars in the garden
Thomas Coex/AFP/Getty
Depression-era cash and weapons in the walls
ShutterstockProfessional/Shutterstock
Depression-era cash and weapons in the walls
Militarist/Shutterstock
Gold bars found by the builders
Leonid Andronov/Shutterstock
Gold bars found by the builders
Lisa S/Shutterstock
Viking artefacts found by metal detectorists
Dm_Cherry/Shutterstock
Viking artefacts found by metal detectorists
Tony Baggett/Shutterstock
Sunken coins found in a shipwreck
Sonia Bonet/Shutterstock
Sunken coins found in a shipwreck
Sonia Bonet/Shutterstock
16th Century Shipwreck containing historic treasure
Nejat Semerci/Shutterstock
16th Century Shipwreck containing historic treasure
Sergey Zuenok/Shutterstock
Hoard of gold found by scuba divers
Adam Ke/Shutterstock
Hoard of gold found by scuba divers
SimoneN/Shutterstock
Original North Carolina Bill of Rights
Jack R Perry Photography/Shutterstock
Original North Carolina Bill of Rights
Mark Van Scyoc/Shutterstock
Art collector with hundreds of stolen treasures forced to return to families
Paul Signac / Public domain
Art collector with hundreds of stolen treasures forced to return to families
Agence de presse Meurisse / Public domain
Ancient Indian artefacts that were stolen
Public domain/Wikipedia Commons
Ancient Indian artefacts that were stolen
Mdjaveed01/Wikipedia Commons
17th-century gold coins found while digging
WikiImages/Pixabay
17th-century gold coins found while digging
WikiImages/Pixabay
Cash found in the walls
webandi/Pixabay
Cash found in the walls
445693/Pixabay
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