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Lost at Sea, Saved by History: Sedwick Auction 40 Brings Spanish Gold and Colonial Rarities to Market

Lost in a 1715 Hurricane, This Gold Royal Returns at Sedwick Auction 40 A gold coin struck in Mexico City in 1714 survived one of the greatest maritime disasters in Spanish colonia...

Ancient gold treasures stolen from museum in "super-fast" raid

The treasure was discovered in 1963 by archaeologist Jose Maria Soler in a vessel sunk in a dried-out riverbed in Villena.

Thieves loot Bronze Age gold artefacts from Spanish museum in four-minute heist

While the treasure’s historical value is incalculable, the gold alone is worth around €1.7 million.

Thieves steal bronze age treasure in ‘very well planned’ four-minute museum heist in Spain

Gold collection known as Treasure of Villena, worth at least €1.7m, is latest target of criminal raidThieves in Spain have raided the Treasure of Villena – a stunning collection of...

Thieves steal Bronze Age artifacts from Spanish museum in four-minute heist

The Treasure of Villena is a unique trove of almost ten kilos of gold, bowls, bottles and bracelets dating back to the Bronze Age.

Priceless Bronze Age Villena Treasure stolen from Spanish museum in overnight raid

It consists of 59 objects made of gold, silver, iron, and amber, with a total weight of approximately 10 kilograms The post Priceless Bronze Age Villena Treasure stolen from Spanis...

Thieves raid bronze age collection in ‘super-fast’ Spain museum heist

It is not immediately known how many of the 50-plus mainly gold objects from the Treasure of Villena were taken.

Thieves break into Spanish museum, steal 3,000-year-old gold artifacts

Thieves broke into a municipal museum in Villena, Spain, almost 250 miles southwest of Barcelona, and stole 3,000-year-old gold artifacts rediscovered in the town in 1963.

Spanish heist sees Bronze Age gold stolen in under four minutes

Ισπανία: Κινηματογραφική ληστεία σε μουσείο του Αλικάντε – Εκλάπη ο Θησαυρός της Βιγένα

Οι ληστές χρειάστηκαν μόλις τέσσερα λεπτά για να αφαιρέσουν τα πολύτιμα αντικείμενα, που χρονολογούνται από την Εποχή του Χαλκού.

Gold Rush Rarity Once Thought Unique Brings $354,375 at GreatCollections

This $10 Gold Coin Was Once the Only One Known, Now It is the Finest Know by 18 Points For decades, collectors knew of only one. Then a legendary shipwreck yielded four more. Now,...

Gold From “America’s Titanic”: A 1836 Half Eagle Lost at Sea in 1838

Gold From a 45-Minute Disaster: The 1836 Half Eagle of the S.B. Pulaski An 1836 Classic Head Half Eagle recovered from the S.B. Pulaski carries two remarkable histories. One began...

America’s $20 “Euro Before the Euro”: Finest 1879 Quintuple Stella Heads to Heritage

Five Were Struck: America’s Finest 1879 Quintuple Stella Five were struck. Four remain in private hands. One belongs to the Smithsonian. Now the finest-certified example of the leg...

$67 Million ANA Blockbuster: Five U.S. Coins Cross $1 Million at Heritage

Five American coins crossed the million-dollar mark during Heritage Auctions’ 2026 ANA sales One extraordinary gold pattern stood above them all. The finest-certified 1879 Liberty...

The billion-dollar shipwreck and the man who tried to find it – podcast

Journalist Julian Sancton on the story of the most valuable shipwreck in history and who could end up with its treasuresA few years ago, the journalist Julian Sancton came across a...

Five 1907 Saint-Gaudens Double Eagles Worth $7 Million Headline GACC Show

Five Legendary 1907 Saint-Gaudens Double Eagles Bring a $7 Million Story to Rosemont For one year, the United States Mint struggled to turn Augustus Saint-Gaudens’ artistic vision...

Stack’s Bowers Hides $40,000 in Coin Prizes Across Four U.S. Cities

$40,000 in Coin Prizes Are Hiding in Four U.S. Cities This October A five-day scavenger hunt in each city will send collectors searching Miami, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Bos...

Rare 1687 James II Five Guineas part of Sovereign Rarities Auction XXIII

A Tiny Mark on This Massive 1687 Gold Coin Reveals a Much Bigger Story A massive gold coin struck for a king who would lose his throne only a year later will offer collectors a dir...

209 Rare Treasures From the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair Head to Heritage Auctions

209 Treasures From the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair Emerge From a 15-Year Collection More than 130 years after Chicago dazzled the world with its magnificent Columbian Exposition, a r...

Rare Ming dynasty pomegranate box bought for £19 in 1946 sells for £288,000 after attic discovery

A 15th-century Chinese enamel box, originally bought for £19, sold for £288,000 at an auction. The box was rediscovered in a family attic where it remained unnoticed for decades. M...

Royal Gold Rarity Leads Atlas Numismatics’ New Fixed-Price List

104-Gram Royal Gold Rarity With Kaiser Wilhelm Provenance Headlines New Atlas List A massive 104-gram gold royal wedding medal with an Imperial German pedigree leads the newest fix...

Mystery Of The Mesoamerican Turquoise Mosaic Skull Decorated With Shining Secrets

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A year ago, the skull of a Mixtec ancestor was returned to Mexico from the Netherlands. It had been on display for sixty years at the Wereldmuseum i...

In 2023, a Kentucky farmer found an 1856 silver half dollar in his field; within an hour...

A Kentucky farmer discovered over 800 Civil War-era gold and silver coins. This extraordinary hoard, valued at more than three million dollars, was found buried. The collection inc...

Five U.S. Coins Top $1 Million in $67.2M Heritage ANA Auctions

An 1879 Liberty Head Quintuple Stella pattern sold for a record $2,562,000 at Heritage Auctions, leading a group of major U.S. rarities in the firm’s ANA U.S. Coins Signature Aucti...