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• In November, Stack's Bowers Galleries in Boston will offered an extremely rare three-pence coin from 1652 for auction, CBS News reports.
The coin, which was minted in Boston at the Hull Mint, was purchased from a shop in the Netherlands.
It is one of only three known coins like it, one of which was stolen and hasn't been seen since.
Store manager Stanley Chu expects it to fetch well over $1 million. [CBS News, 9/20/2024]
• Student volunteers were helping out with an archaeological dig in Eu, France, when one of them found a small glass bottle inside an earthenware pot, United Press International reported.
Inside the bottle was a message, written in January 1825, from one "P.J. Feret, a native of Dieppe, member of various intellectual societies." Feret was carrying out excavations at the same site and left the message for future explorers.
"It was an absolutely magic moment," said Guillaume Blondel, head of the town's Regional Archaeology Service.
Local records revealed that Feret was a well-known archaeologist of his time.
Blondel said such finds are rare: "Most archaeologists prefer to think that there won't be anyone coming after them because they've done all the work." [UPI, 9/24/2024]