CNN — It was 1984. Hulk Hogan had won the WWE Championship from The Iron Sheik, Rowdy Roddy Piper smashed a coconut over Jimmy Snuka’s head and Captain Lou Albano’s appearance in Cyndi Lauper’s “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” was hitting the airwaves.

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VIENNA — A man turning dirt in his backyard stumbled onto buried treasure — hundreds of pieces of centuries-old jewelry and other precious objects that Austrian authorities described Friday as a fairy-tale find.

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China has a big problem with counterfeiting of its own currency, paper money as well as coins, according to counterfeit expert Robert Matthews. The Chinese police periodically seize fake large quantities of Chinese notes and coins.

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It’s the dream of any antique collector: You impulsively spend a few bucks on a trinket at an estate sale or an antiques store, and later discover that it’s worth more than what you paid for it. Much more.

And that’s pretty much the dream that came true for a 79-year-old British retired worker from the Cadbury chocolate factory, who recently walked into an auction house with a near-perfect Ming vase in a cardboard box.

It’s unknown how the man, who wanted the press to refrain from publishing his name, came into possession of the rare vase, but staffers at Duke’s—the Dorchester auction house that took it in—were astounded by the “spectacular find.”

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