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The Hackney Hoard

Hackney, London

Gold coins buried by a refugee in the war, found by a man digging a pond.

In 2007 a man digging a fishpond in his Hackney garden found 80 American gold coins in a jar. Researchers traced them to Martin Sulzbacher, a German Jewish refugee who had buried them during the Blitz.

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When
Found 2007
Where
51.5500, -0.0600
Group
Lost treasure

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Some coins are displayed at the Museum of London.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Artifacts and Civilizations by Cale Mills
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The Ledger of Lost Artifacts and Civilizations

Not every mystery needs a lost continent. This book investigates fifty-nine real and often overlooked puzzles from the ancient and modern world: a temple older than farming itself, astonishing structures, out-of-place artifacts, and technologies lost to time. Each case is weighed honestly, with a clear ledger of the case for and against, so you can make up your own mind. Some cases collapse under scrutiny. Others remain genuinely unexplained. All of them are stranger than Atlantis.

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