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The E-Sylum: Volume 21, Number 13, April 1, 2018, Article 31

FAKE ANCIENT COIN FIND REPORT

Not all treasure finds are real. Bob Leonard spotted a whopper in a Lost Treasure Newsletter. -Editor

Fake Treasure Find story image The March 20, 2018 issue of Lost Treasure Newsletter (which I started getting for free recently from Lost Treasure magazine) has a story, "Detectorist Donates One Million To Charity After Finding Treasure" on pp. 22-23. It shows a picture of a detectorist who allegedly found "a large number of ancient coins worth two million dollars." No coins are pictured, but they are said to be from "Catalunya," a nonexistent place, but I thought possibly a misprint for Catalonia.

The source of this story was https://www.ein-presswire.com/article/415996421/. This doesn't seem to be coming up for me now, but when I looked at it last week it was the same as the Lost Treasure Newsletter story. Besides the name of the "country" from which the coins supposedly came from, other red flags are (1) no illustrations of any coins; (2) headline says finder "donated" a million dollars, but story says he "will" donate that; (3) value of the find is impossibly high.

Maybe I'm making too much of this hoax story. Buried and sunken treasure stories, and lost gold mines too, are frequently exaggerated (see my article on the Yoachum Dollar), but complete fiction in my opinion is something else again. I don't recognize the source as a known Fake News site, but maybe you do. In any case, Lost Treasure Newsletter was fooled.

To read the complete Lost Treasure newsletter for March 20, 2018, see:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sNQFwdy2oMciVYTinOrM8WQk4Ox1gM6K/view



Wayne Homren, Editor

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