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Book Lost and Found Coin Hoards Abd Treasures

Download or read book Lost and Found Coin Hoards Abd Treasures written by Q. David Bowers and published by Whitman Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this richly illustrated book of true stories, Q. David Bowers takes you on an exploration of treasures from sunken ships, bank vaults and reserves, hidden compartments, buried chests and boxes, old safes, hideaways of pirates and privateers, cornerstones, barrels and casks, Mint and Treasury storage, wrecked buildings, caves and crevices, old estates, time capsules, forgotten collections, attics and basements, and other lost and hidden places. These valuable treasures and hoards of American coins had vanished from memory, but now many of them have been found. Some are still missing, and awaiting discovery This book is your ticket for an exclusive look behind the curtains of time, by a master storyteller and America's best-known numismatist.

Book Lost and Found Coin Hoards and Treasures  2nd Edition

Download or read book Lost and Found Coin Hoards and Treasures 2nd Edition written by Q David Bowers and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales of treasure from sunken ships, bank vaults and reserves, hidden compartments, buried chests and boxes, vintage safes, hiding places of pirates and privateers, old cornerstones, barrels and casks, Mint and Treasury storage, wrecked buildings, caves and crevices, ancient estates, dusty time capsules, forgotten collections, attics and basements, and other lost and hidden places. In this updated and revised 2nd edition, join Q. David Bowers, one of America's master storytellers, as he shines light on the most astounding, dramatic, unusual, and daydream-inspiring American coin hoards and treasures. Old colonial coins. Hefty silver dollars. Boxes of gleaming gold. Bundles of antique currency. Many treasures have already been found; many others are waiting for you to find them¦¦.

Book Ancient Treasures

    Book Details:
  • Author : Brian Haughton
  • Publisher : Red Wheel/Weiser
  • Release : 2013-07-22
  • ISBN : 1601635486
  • Pages : 257 pages

Download or read book Ancient Treasures written by Brian Haughton and published by Red Wheel/Weiser. This book was released on 2013-07-22 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Hidden History offers a fascinating tour through centuries of buried riches, stolen artifacts, and other true tales of treasure. The allure of treasure has captivated people for centuries. But is it purely a desire for wealth that draws us to tales of hidden riches, or is it also the romantic appeal of uncovering lost ancient artifacts? The stories behind the loss and recovery of ancient treasures often read like historical suspense fiction. In Ancient Treasures, readers discover the true histories of lost hoards, looted archaeological artifacts, and sunken treasures, including: The Sevso Treasure, a hoard of large silver vessels from the late Roman Empire—estimated to be worth $200 million—looted in the 1970s and sold on the black market. The Amber Room, a chamber decoration of amber panels backed with gold leaf and mirrors, stolen by the Nazis in 1941 and brought to the castle at Königsberg in Russia, from which it disappeared. The fabulous wealth of Roman and Viking hoards buried in the ground for safekeeping, only to be unearthed centuries later by humble metal detectorists. The wrecks of the Spanish treasure fleets, whose New World plunder has been the target of elaborate salvage attempts by modern treasure hunters

Book American Coin Treasures and Hoards

Download or read book American Coin Treasures and Hoards written by Q. David Bowers and published by Bowers & Merena Galleries. This book was released on 1997-04-01 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Coins and Collectors

Download or read book Coins and Collectors written by Q. David Bowers and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In more than 50 illustrated chapters, Bowers tells of famous coins, mysterious tokens and medals, beautiful paper money, and legendary hoards and collections. He gives the stories behind modern favorites and popular classics. Along the way he introduces famous coin designers, unscrupulous Treasury officials, brilliant scholars, Confederate raiders, globe-trotting magicians, burlesque dancers, and dueling numismatists." -- p. [4] of cover.

Book Illegal Tender

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Tripp
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2007-11-01
  • ISBN : 1439100292
  • Pages : 1030 pages

Download or read book Illegal Tender written by David Tripp and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 1030 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's the most valuable ounce of gold in the world, the celebrated, the fabled, the infamous 1933 double eagle, illegal to own and coveted all the more, sought with passion by men of wealth and with steely persistence by the United States government for more than a half century—it shouldn't even exist but it does, and its astonishing, true adventures read like "a composite of The Lord of the Rings and The Maltese Falcon" (The New York Times). In 1905, at the height of the exuberant Gilded Age, President Theodore Roosevelt commissioned America's greatest sculptor, Augustus Saint-Gaudens—as he battled in vain for his life—to create what became America's most beautiful coin. In 1933 the hopes of America dimmed in the darkness of the Great Depression, and gold—the nation's lifeblood—hemorrhaged from the financial system. As the economy teetered on the brink of total collapse, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in his first act as president, assumed wartime powers while the nation was at peace and in a "swift, staccato action" unprecedented in United States history recalled all gold and banned its private ownership. But the United States Mint continued, quite legally, to strike nearly a half million 1933 double eagles that were never issued and were deemed illegal to own. In 1937, along with countless millions of other gold coins, they were melted down into faceless gold bars and sent to Fort Knox. The government thought they had destroyed them all—but they were wrong. A few escaped, purloined in a crime—an inside job—that wasn't discovered until 1944. Then, the fugitive 1933 double eagles became the focus of a relentless Secret Service investigation spearheaded by the man who had put away Al Capone. All the coins that could be found were seized and destroyed. But one was beyond their reach, in a king's collection in Egypt, where it survived a world war, a revolution, and a coup, only to be lost again. In 1996, more than forty years later, in a dramatic sting operation set up by a Secret Service informant at the Waldorf-Astoria, an English and an American coin dealer were arrested with a 1933 double eagle which, after years of litigation, was sold in July 2002 to an anonymous buyer for more than $7.5 million in a record-shattering auction. But was it the only one? The lost one? Illegal Tender, revealing information available for the first time, tells a riveting tale of American history, liberally spiced with greed, intrigue, deception, and controversy as it follows the once secret odyssey of this fabulous golden object through the decades. With its cast of kings, presidents, government agents, shadowy dealers, and crooks, Illegal Tender will keep readers guessing about this incomparable disk of gold—the coin that shouldn't be and almost wasn't—until the very end.

Book The Lost Coin

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sherry Gerstein
  • Publisher : Reader's Digest Children's Books
  • Release : 2004-08
  • ISBN : 9780794404420
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Lost Coin written by Sherry Gerstein and published by Reader's Digest Children's Books. This book was released on 2004-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of how a piece of lost treasure made an amazing journey. It found its way from a pirate, to a parrot, to a shark and more. But the best part of this book is that it comes with a shiny gold coin for young readers to keep! Just open the special holder inside the book to take out the coin. Then find the openings on every page and push the coin through to the next part of the story.

Book Looking for Lost Treasure

Download or read book Looking for Lost Treasure written by Gregory N. Peters and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2014 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Describes famous treasure hunts and the tricks and tools treasure hunters use to find treasure"--

Book Ancient Greek Coins

Download or read book Ancient Greek Coins written by G. Kenneth Jenkins and published by Numismatic Fine Arts International. This book was released on 1990 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lost Treasures

Download or read book Lost Treasures written by Eric Chaline and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lost Treasures of American History

Download or read book Lost Treasures of American History written by W. C. Jameson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2006 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With his storyteller's gift, Jameson relates episodes from early explorers through the colonial period, the Civil War, the settling of the West, and the roaring 1920s. As a professional treasure hunter, he has followed the trails of many of the lost mines and buried treasures he describes. Sample treasures include Sir Francis Drake Treasure, Benedict Arnold Treasure, Lafayette's Sunken Riches, Maryland's Lost Silver Mine, The Wandering Confederate Treasury, Lost Treasure of the Gray Ghost, Oklahoma Outlaw Cache, and Lost Spanish Gold in the Sandia Mountains.

Book Lost World of the Golden King

Download or read book Lost World of the Golden King written by Frank L. Holt and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-10-18 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on ancient historical writings, the vast array of information gleaned in recent years from the study of Hellenistic coins, and startling archaeological evidence newly unearthed in Afghanistan, Frank L. Holt sets out to rediscover the ancient civilization of Bactria. In a gripping narrative informed by the author’s deep knowledge of his subject, this book covers two centuries of Bactria’s history, from its colonization by remnants of Alexander the Great’s army to the kingdom’s collapse at the time of a devastating series of nomadic invasions. Beginning with the few tantalizing traces left behind when the ‘empire of a thousand cities’ vanished, Holt takes up that trail and follows the remarkable and sometimes perilous journey of rediscovery. Lost World of the Ancient King describes how a single bit of evidence—a Greek coin—launched a search that drew explorers to the region occupied by the tumultuous warring tribes of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Afghanistan. Coin by coin, king by king, the history of Bactria was reconstructed using the emerging methodologies of numismatics. In the twentieth century, extraordinary ancient texts added to the evidence. Finally, one of the ‘thousand cities’ was discovered and excavated, revealing an opulent palace, treasury, temple, and other buildings. Though these great discoveries soon fell victim to the Afghan political crisis that continues today, this book provides a thrilling chronicle of the search for one of the world’s most enigmatic empires.

Book The Book of Buried Treasure

Download or read book The Book of Buried Treasure written by Ralph D. Paine and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book of Buried Treasure is a historical account of pirates and piracy, containing true stories of some of the most notorious buccaneers, their heists and robberies and the pirate gold that is lost forever. The book is written by American journalist and adventurer Ralph D. Paine who was indicted for piracy with a capital crime, after sailing on a boat that was smuggling munitions._x000D_ Table of Contents:_x000D_ The World-Wide Hunt for Vanished Riches_x000D_ Captain Kidd in Fact and Fiction_x000D_ Captain Kidd, His Treasure_x000D_ Captain Kidd, His Trial, and Death_x000D_ The Wondrous Fortune of William Phips_x000D_ The Bold Sea Rogue, John Quelch_x000D_ The Armada Galleon of Tobermory Bay_x000D_ The Lost Plate Fleet of Vigo_x000D_ The Pirates' Hoard of Trinidad_x000D_ The Lure of Cocos Island_x000D_ The Mystery of the Lutine Frigate_x000D_ The Toilers of the Thetis_x000D_ The Quest of El Dorado_x000D_ The Wizardry of the Divining Rod_x000D_ Sundry Pirates and Their Booty_x000D_ Practical Hints for Treasure Seekers

Book Treasures of the Eastern Shore

    Book Details:
  • Author : Andy Nunez
  • Publisher : Independently Published
  • Release : 2019-06-18
  • ISBN : 9781074837457
  • Pages : 118 pages

Download or read book Treasures of the Eastern Shore written by Andy Nunez and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you have ever wondered about lost Treasure, especially on Maryland's Eastern Shore, here is the only book you need. Go along with author Andy Nunez as he recounts the search for buried coins, relics and jewelry. Delve into the turbulent history of the Eastern Shore in the hunt for buried treasure, or merely uncover places where people lost coins and jewelry. Heavily illustrated this also includes tips for the beginning treasure hunter. Andy Nunez has over 30 years experience combing the Delmarva Peninsula from Virginia to Delaware and he will show you amazing items that he and his friends found over the years.

Book American Coin Treasures and Hoards and Caches of Other American Numismatic Items

Download or read book American Coin Treasures and Hoards and Caches of Other American Numismatic Items written by Q. David Bowers and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book How to Find Lost Treasure

Download or read book How to Find Lost Treasure written by Joan Holub and published by Aladdin. This book was released on 2000-06-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever hidden something, and then forgotten where it was? Imagine if you buried a treasure, but couldn't find it when you went back to look. This has really happened! Here is information about real treasure lost in all fifty states, and even some in Canada! Read and be amazed. You know what? This book could make you the richest person in the world. AMAZING TRUE STORIES: Coins and bits of treasure wash up on Florida beaches more often than anywhere else in the United States. The Great Lakes are freshwater and are extremely cold. These water conditions help preserve sunken treasures better than warm saltwater oceans do. In the United States alone there is $300 billion' worth of lost treasure waiting to be found!

Book Treasure

    Book Details:
  • Author : Glenn Murphy
  • Publisher : American Education Publishing
  • Release : 2011-02-15
  • ISBN : 9781609960780
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Treasure written by Glenn Murphy and published by American Education Publishing. This book was released on 2011-02-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces treasure hunting, discusses different finds, including King Tut, pirate treasure, and shipwrecks, and explores myths and legends surrounding various treasures.