Over the next three days in sunshine, fog, and misty rain, I will catch halibut, lingcod, rockfish, and more than a dozen salmon, though never one of the great 30-pound tyees they give you a gold pin for.

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Pointing out a third-century onyx, gold, enamel and pearl cameo, "Dionysus and Ariadne on Naxos, " Ms. Leopardi says it was most likely transformed into a hat pin or pendant in the 1500s after a gold mount was added.

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Items also declared treasure by Norfolk's assistant deputy coroner David Osborne included an Anglo-Saxon silver pin found in Scoulton, a Middle Bronze Age Gold Bead discovered in Salthouse and a hoard of 59 silver Roman coins that date from the Roman Republic to Tiberius, the second emperor of Rome.

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The best of these carvings have a joyful exuberance, with carved tulips, hearts, animals, or fruit, rhinestones, gold paint, red velvet- lined drawers with secret compartments and pin-release locks.

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