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Easy Ways to Get Rich: Unearth gold with a metal detector

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Easy Ways to Get Rich: Unearth gold with a metal detector

Most of us have seen them—people combing the beach for loose change with metal detectors as the rest of us work on our tan. Sometimes their payoff is a little bigger. Such is the case of Terry Herbert, an unemployed Briton, who struck gold in a friend’s farm in Staffordshire, England. He found 1,600 Anglo-Saxon gold and silver pieces dating as far back as the 7th century, valued at £3.285 million (or about $5.1 million today). Herbert will get half the cash, according to The Times of London.