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• Qwazpoi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’m no historical expert and I am just kind of spitballing here but I could see a few situations where that would make sense. Like you have something that is too hot to handle for the time being, maybe you just stole from Spain and now you have to pass through a Spanish blockade? Or maybe people can easily show up to a port with a normal amount of gold/currency but then over a certain amount it either risks being confiscated or drawing attention.

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  • Katana314@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Interesting to realize; a ship pulling into port is just a privateer, especially if their cargo hold is nothing but a shipment of bananas. The only thing that makes them a pirate is a freighter on the bottom of the sea, and treasure only they know about.

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• Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Yea pirates burying treasure is largely a myth imo

  Like yeah there’s documented instances, but it wasn’t common practice.

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  • ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Captain Kidd did claim he buried treasure, but he did it as a stalling tactic to delay his inevitable hanging. There are no confirmed cases of pirates burying their treasure.

    The myth largely sprung up from the novel Treasure Island. Which birth a ton of adventure tropes.

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    • Hugin@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I know of one instance. Pirate plundered a ship ruining a false flag. It was actually from a nation he was friendly with. Buried the treasurer in the hope they wouldn’t find out.

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  • MotoAsh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    There has always been better ways to launder money than simply sitting on it.

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    • sidelove@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I was under the impression it was just storage under-the-mattress style. No one’s bringing a treasure chest to buy eggs.

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    • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I don’t think pirates really worried about laundering any booty. What for? They weren’t worried about the IRS, nor would people generally have qualms about where someone’s gold/silverm/wares might have come from, methinks.

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  • kibiz0r@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I just spent way too long reading this as a result: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buried_treasure

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• Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’d be more concerned about the flying saucer critter eyeing them down.

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  …or the lit stick of dynamite a few feet away from the dude’s head.

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  • chtk@feddit.nl ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s a Bizarro comic. The little alien guy is always there somewhere.

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    • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Nice! This was my first one - definitely had me scouring the entire image once I started noticing the weirdness.

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  • MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I ❤️ finding the Bizarro treasures. There’s usually something in every comic.

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  • HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Or the eyeball. Or the other thing, whatever it is.

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• UncleGrandPa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The only pirate known to have buried treasure… Dud it once to hide it from the authorities when he was attempting to get amnesty

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