The "Hurricane Sandy's Lost Treasures" page is devoted to helping reunite owners with found objects.

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Now that gold and silver prices have skyrocketed, you can search for lost treasures and sell them to add cash to your pocket.

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How can we understand why Thorin Oakenshield has such a burning desire to find the lost treasures of the Dwarves and to reclaim their homeland?

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While paying smugglers for the return of lost treasures is a controversial move on the part of the museum, it seems to have worked in this instance.

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International Days such as this help to raise awareness and to alert public authorities about the extreme fragility of the treasures that are being lost.

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