You don’t need a fedora and a whip to go treasure hunting nowadays. Mostly you need permits, tools, and a love for history. You might be interested in unearthing ancient relics of bygone days, sunken ships with untold treasures, or you might just happen upon a storage unit with plenty of pirate booty.
Speaking of pirates, some of the earliest date back to 1400-1200 BC. The Lukkans harassed and plundered the Egyptian empire, which is probably why many of the pyramids had false rooms or traps built into them.
Later in the 1200’s (AD), some pirates were hired privateers, charged with the job of looting the ships of rival countries. One such pirate, named the Black Monk, was once secretly hired by both the French and English kings against each other.
But what about that storage unit? Well, a man from San Jose, who wishes to remain anonymous, paid $1100 for an abandoned storage unit that had a collection of rare gold coins and silver bars. The treasure chest that contained the bounty was a blue Rubbermaid container, so heavy that it took three men to move it out of the unit.
The coins and bars were sold for over $500,000.
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