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The World's Most Valuable Amber Was a Simple Doorstop

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For decades, a modest house in the Romanian village of Colti unknowingly housed one of the most extraordinary pieces of amber known to date. A local woman, without suspecting its real value, used as a doorstop a 3.5-kilogram stone found in a nearby stream. Only after her death in 1991, a relative who inherited the house suspected that that "tope" could hide something else. The stone turned out to be the largest piece of Romanian amber of which i…
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For decades, a modest house in the Romanian village of Colti unknowingly housed one of the most extraordinary pieces of amber known to date. A local woman, without suspecting its real value, used as a doorstop a 3.5-kilogram stone found in a nearby stream. Only after her death in 1991, a relative who inherited the house suspected that that "tope" could hide something else. The stone turned out to be the largest piece of Romanian amber of which i…

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WWWhat's new broke the news in on Tuesday, December 23, 2025.
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