Found Treasure

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Update on Tommy Thompson

'Ship of gold' treasure hunter released from prison decade after Florida arrest. Where are coins?​

A former deep-sea treasure hunter who made one of the great shipwreck discoveries in American history and spent more than a decade in jail after refusing to disclose the whereabouts of some of its missing gold coins is now out of prison, federal records show.

Tommy Thompson, who in 1988 located what was known as the Ship of Gold off the coast of South Carolina, was released last Wednesday, according to federal Bureau of Prisons records reviewed by The Associated Press.

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A Comedy or a Tragedy? Treasure Hunter Freed from Prison

In 1857, the gold was worth about $2 million. With gold over $5,000 an ounce, the melt value alone would be somewhere in the neighborhood of $2.2 billion.

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Two Hikers Found an Aluminum Can in the Woods. They Opened It—and Left With a $330,000 Gold Treasure.

Two hikers stumbled upon a small aluminum can in a forested area of the Czech Republic that contained nearly 600 gold coins.

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[Bottom Feeder]

He Tugged a Rope in the Floor and Discovered $2.4 Million
Daily Galaxy

A plumber renovating the basement of a villa in Vienna’s Penzing district made one of the most striking accidental discoveries in recent Austrian memory: a rusted metal chest packed with approximately 30 kilograms of gold coins, cemented into the floor and hidden beneath concrete for what experts believe was decades. The coins, each stamped with the image of composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, carry an estimated value of 2.3 million euros, or roughly $2.4 million.

The chest surfaced only because the plumber noticed a rope protruding from the basement floor. When he pulled on it and it refused to move, he broke through the concrete and found the chest anchored below.

Under the Austrian Civil Code, a find of hidden valuables qualifies as a legal treasure when the original owner can no longer be identified. Ownership is then split: the finder receives half, and the property owner receives the other half. The law does not automatically transfer full ownership to the state, which means the plumber may walk away with a share valued at over one million euros.