Are you adventurous, do you like puzzles and do you want to become rich? Then you should read on now! A very wealthy businessman has hidden five treasure chests worth more than two million dollars in the United States. And Jon Collins-Black promises: “You don’t have to be a genius to decipher my clues – curiosity and imagination are enough!”
Black became a multi-millionaire thanks to Bitcoin investments. He decided that he wanted to share some of his fortune with others, but that they had to earn it. To fill his five treasure chests, Collins-Black has traveled the world in recent years bidding at auctions.
Gold coins, jewelry and collectibles
He auctioned gold doubloons and other historical objects from shipwrecks, such as a 2,400-year-old gold laurel wreath from ancient Greece. Other highlights include rare Pokémon and sports trading cards (including Michael Jordan’s coveted 1986 “First Season” card), Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis’ diamond and sapphire brooch, a coin designed by Pablo Picasso and a piece of moonstone. To do this, Collins-Black has parted with one of his Bitcoins, which are currently worth almost $100,000 each.
Here you see Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis’ brooch hidden in one of the treasure chests:
Treasures should be easily accessible
For treasure hunters, he has published clues hidden in puzzles and maps in a book. The title: “There is a treasure inside” – in German: “There is a treasure inside”. Collins-Black promises all adventurers that none of his treasure chests are hidden in dangerous places or buried in the ground. Another important tip: the locations are each within three miles of a paved road and exclusively on public land.
Collins-Black revealed to TV station WKRC that the idea for his treasure hunt came to him during the COVID lockdown: “I’m someone who lives for adventure. I hope I can inspire the same sense of curiosity and wonder in others.”
This coin designed by Picasso also awaits a treasure hunter:
It’s also entirely possible that Collins-Black was inspired by another eccentric millionaire. In 2010, art dealer Forrest Fenn hid a treasure chest in the Rocky Mountains. A poem served as a treasure map. It lasted ten years and cost the lives of five treasure hunters, until Fenn announced in June 2020 that a searcher had found what he was looking for. Fenn took the lucky man’s name to his grave – because he died shortly afterwards without ever mentioning it.
Source: Krone
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