6 Unexpected Treasures Found in Curious Places

In 2018, at a Goodwill store in Austin, Texas, a marble bust of a dour-looking man caught antique dealer Laura Young’s eye. She liked the look of him and bought the bust for $34.99, dubbing it “Dennis” after the self-obsessed character Dennis Reynolds in It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Young guessed the statue was old, but never imagined it was a 2,000-year-old original. A Greek sculpture expert ​​at Sotheby’s deduced that Dennis was actually a Roman bust of Germanicus, father of infamous madman Caligula. But that wasn’t all: Young learned…

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