Top 10 Most Awesome Metal Detector Finds Ever

Top 10 Most Awesome Metal Detector Finds Ever

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The 10 Most Awesome Metal Detector Finds Ever!
This might sound crazy, but buying a metal detector is actually an investment. I know, finding the proverbial dimes and metal scraps might not be as fun, but if you do your homework and search in the right places...you might just land yourself a fortune!

So, in this video, we’ll be taking a look at 10 amazing metal detector finds that enabled the people who discovered them to cash out on a lifetime fortune and say goodbye to their boring 9 to 5s!

Ready...awesome! Let’s get started!!
10. The Crosby Garrett Helmet: $3 million
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGBr3jkJWPg

Okay, so we kick things off with some guy who landed his 401k in an instant thanks to a metal detector find he discovered worth $3 million.

This rare bronze helmet, discovered at Crosby Garrett in Cumbria, England is one of just three of its type ever found in the UK. Discovered in May 2010 by an unnamed metal detectors

The helmet was in 67 pieces but was reconstructed by auction house Christie’s before going up for sale.

Following a telephone bidding war, the winning bidder paid a massive £3 million for the helmet – more than eight times the estimated price.

9. Jersey coin hoard: up to $3.2 million
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kKNaqIk6ew

Let’s play a game, shall we? Let’ say you’re my best friend, and one day, we decide to get up early in the morning and go to a field just to look for metal findings for fun!

Midway through, we detect a coin hoard worth $3.2 million. Uhm, if that isn’t lady luck blowing you a kiss from the heavens, then shoot me dead...because I don’t know what else is!

Discovered by two metal detectorists in a field on the island of Jersey, this hoard of 74,000 Celtic coins, along with torcs and gold and silver jewellery, was recently valued at up to $3.2million by the Treasure Valuation Committee.

The giant clump of corroded-together metal was discovered in June 2012 by Reg Mead and Richard Miles, and was declared the world’s largest Celtic coin hoard ever found.

Uhm, can I also make a discovery like this, please God?

8. Stolen Herefordshire hoard: $3.9 million
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tiSc1R3GWo

It’s a high-value hoard – with a twist. In June 2015, metal detectorists George Powell and Layton Davies found a selection of Anglo-Saxon coins and jewellery on a farm near Leominster, Herefordshire in England.

The hoard contained 300 coins as well as a gold ring, bracelet and crystal ball pendant, valued at an estimated $3.9 million in total.

Yet the treasure hunters didn’t declare the hoard and instead illegally sold much of it off to the black market.

In November 2019, the men and two accomplices were found guilty of the theft, with "leader" Powell receiving a sentence of 10 years, while Davies was jailed for eight-and-a-half years. As much as 90% of the hoard remains missing.

Uhm, so correct me if I’m wrong...if I find a treasure in my backyard, I have to declare it to the authorities? I had no idea that this was the law or something...weird.

7. Gold coins from Spanish Fleet: $4.5 million
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHTmJp8l3eg

Christmas, and of course retirement came early for this treasure hunting team. Yep, all those years of diving and hard work finally paid off….and handsomely, might I add!

In 2015, diver William Bartlett, along with a treasure hunting team, discovered treasure worth $4.5 million from a shipwreck from 1715 off the coast of Florida.

The haul included 350 gold coins, nine of which were rare examples known as 'royal eight escudos', which were still in impeccable condition after 300 years underwater.


6. Hoxne Hoard: $4.7 million
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Gwpks-3z84

The largest stash of late Roman gold and silver discovered in Britain, the Hoxne Hoard was found by metal detecting whiz Eric Lawes back in November 1992 buried in farmland near Hoxne, England.

Valued at £1.75 million in 1993, the find is worth $4.7 million in today's money. The money was shared between Lawes and the farmer Peter Whatling.

Now that’s retiring in style. I don’t know about you, but all these stories about metal detectors are making me want to rush to Amazon, click on metal detectors, and tell them to take my money!!


5. Staffordshire Hoard: $5.7 million
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAAHhrVsf8s

This metal detecting discovery is the largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver metalwork ever found.