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The chest weighed about 20 pounds, and its contents weighed another 20 pounds. He described the chest as an ornate, Romanesque box-carved with scenes of knights and ladies-containing gold nuggets, rare gold coins, and various kinds of gemstones.
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"I do not know the person who found it, but the poem in my book led him to the precise spot." He told the Santa Fe New Mexican that the man who found the treasure declined to be named publicly but hailed from "back east."įenn claimed he set up the hunt to inspire people to explore nature by giving them a "good old-fashioned adventure." It was also a way to offer hope to those deeply affected by the Great Recession that followed the collapse of the housing market in 2008. "It was under a canopy of stars in the lush, forested vegetation of the Rocky Mountains and had not moved from the spot where I hid it more than ten years ago," Fenn wrote on his website. The man who found the treasure-a cache estimated to be worth over $1 million- sent confirmation of his discovery to Fenn with a photograph of the chest. Over 350,000 people have tried and failed to find it over the last decade, and now one of them has finally succeeded. He hid the clues to its location in a poem that is part of his 2010 self-published memoir, The Thrill of the Chase. Ten years ago, an antiquities dealer named Forrest Fenn buried a treasure chest filled with gold, rubies, emeralds, and diamonds somewhere in the Rocky Mountains.