Monday 27 June, 2022
The findings include hundreds of Roman silver and bronze coins dating to the mid-third century.
Police have asked the antiquities dealer behind the hunt to call it off, saying it’s putting lives at risk.
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Customs said the man landed from Dubai on an Emirates flight.
UNESCO criticised their methods and said they may have damaged a precious archaeological site in their hunt for treasure.
Paul Coleman was out with the Weekend Wanderers Detecting Club.
The man who found it did so using a metal detector.
There has been an outpouring of well-wishes on Twitter.
Coins, medals, banknotes and some old scrolls were found in the box which was hidden when the monument was put in place in 1921.
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The climber found emeralds, rubies and sapphires that had been buried for decades after a plane crashed some 50 years ago.
It is thought that the thieves had the help of “airport accomplices”.
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Metal detector users are being warned by Government that they may not be aware their actions are illegal.
The silver was hauled from a British merchant ship that was sunk by the Nazis in 1941.
Lorenzo Ghiberti’s 15th-century door is to go on display at a Florence museum from September.
The silver discovered by a US deep-water exploration company could be worth up to €173 million.
