Buried Treasure.

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Have you ever found any buried treasure?

Has ANY one in human history ever actually found "buried treasure"?

I don't mean archeologists finding gold in ancient tombs, or layers of ancient cities.

I mean pirate treasure deliberately buried by pirates in the days of the Spanish Main.

I mean actually finding a strongbox buried by pirates containing treasure?

SUNKEN treasure: galleons carrying gold and gems that sank in hurricanes while traversing the sea get discovered by modern under sea salvagers in real life every few years.

But I cant remember ever hearing about someone actually finding "buried" pirate treasure on a shore anywhere.

There is something called "the money hole" on an island off of Canada. A mysterious thing that folks have been digging to get to the bottom of (both literally and figuratively) for decades that started out looking like a story book pirate type buried treasure thing come to life, but has turned out to far weirder than anything any pirate could have pulled off.

Here in the UK, the term "Bank" origionally came from a literal bank (Hedgrow) where people used to hide their hard earned coins in leather pouches to keep them safe.
One of our neighbours said that when he was a little boy, he was with his friend and they found a leather pouch filled with old silver coins. They were young back then, and they sat on the local river bridge and enjoyed themselves skimming the coins in the water until they ran out of coins.

Jjimmy:

Yeah its called "the money pit" even though far more money has gone IN to it than has come out of it. I read of it long ago, and recently they've started that reality TV show about folks putting even more time and money into digging it. I caught an episode recently. Interesting show that competes with "Finding Bigfoot", and like that.

Mountain Goat:

I suppose that finding caches of coins might be a common thing in the Old World, like in England. I guess that's what folks did back in the days before they had savings and loans. Just bury their savings in the back yard, or along a river bank. The US didn't have much history prior to the age of progress and of modern banking. So that is not a very common a thing to stumble upon here. I feel sorry for those boys you knew. If they had dividied up those centuries old silver coins and saved them until adulthood they probably could have sold them for big modern money. Instead they......just used them up by...skimming them across the water?????? I am in vicarious emotional pain just hearing that story!

The coins are probably still down there buried in the mud. Just waiting for someone to find them and bring them to the light of day. Just don't drown yourself in the process.