From Hobby Store to Big Time Metals

"Since 2001, Treasure Island Coins and Precious Metals has grown from a small coin shop with four employees to a business employing 25 people and helping broker multimillion-dollar deals in precious metals.

Chris Olson, 33, is part-owner and CEO of the business that was started by his father, Greg, in downtown Fargo in 1976.

Olson’s father and several other family members still work there."

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Image Credit: Dave Olson \ The Forum

Britanicus Treasure Shop

"A treasure hunter opened his Aladdin’s cave of historical finds in Eastbourne last week.

Simon Wicks has been legally plundering historical sites for the past 40 years unearthing everything from trivial Victorian coins to a golden garnet cross belonging to Anne Boleyn.

His shop Britanicus in Terminus Road holds everything from £5 medieval buckles to £15,000 gold snuff boxes."

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Image Credits: Eastbourne Herald