The nearly 65-carat emerald its finders are marketing by the name Carolina Emperor was pulled from a farm once so well known among treasure hunters that the owners charged $3 a day to shovel for small samples of the green stones. After the gem was cut and re-cut, the finished product was about one-fifth the weight of the original find, making it slightly larger than a U.S. quarter and about as heavy as a AA battery."
Hat tip to Doc Quatermass.
2 comments:
Yeah, I lived on a farm until I was 18 and I never found anything but cow piles and an occassional arrowhead
I do have some nice arrowheads.
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