
No, but like, really found it… accidentally. Take Eric Lawes. In November 1992, a farmer living near the village of Hoxne in Suffolk, England, lost a hammer in one of his fields, so he asked Eric Lawes to use his metal detector to search for it. While looking for the hammer, Lawes happened upon something else of interest — 24 bronze coins, 565 gold coins, 14,191 silver coins, plus hundreds of gold and silver spoons, jewelry, and statues, all dating back to the Roman Empire. When it was all said and done, $2.6 million found its way to Eric’s pockets. And there’s five others just like him. Mental Floss has their stories.
LINK: Mentalfloss.
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