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{{quote|'''[[Only Sane Man|Sissy Pirate:]]''' ''"Uh, captain? Captain? I know we usually bury the treasure, but what if, this time, we use it to buy things? You know... eh... things we like."''
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== Literature ==
* One of the first stories to feature buried
* The most famous story of
* The [[James Bond]] novel ''[[Live and Let Die (novel)|Live and Let Die]]'' deals with pirate treasure discovered in Jamaica.
* ''The Deep'' by [[Peter Benchley]] (made into a film in 1977) has divers discovering a [[WW 2]] ship containing a cargo of morphine, which has sunk on top of a Spanish treasure ship that went down in the 18th century holding a priceless royal dowry. When a local drug kingpin takes an interest, the protagonists have to buy him off by salvaging the morphine while concealing what their real area of interest is.
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== Live Action Television ==
* We probably ought to mention the reality game show ''Pirate Master''. There wasn't any plundering involved, but all they really did was look for treasure.
* Justified in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode ''The Curse of the Black Spot''
** The [[Big Finish]] audio adventure ''[[Big Finish Doctor Who/Recap/043 Doctor Who and the Pirates|Doctor Who and the Pirates]]'' features just about every pirate trope, including buried treasure.
* The ''[[Bones]]'' episode "The Man with the Bone" was based on the [[wikipedia:Oak Island|Oak Island Money Pit]], rumoured to be a burial place of some of Captain Kidd's treasure (or maybe Blackbeard's.)
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** However, the other "Top 10 Pirates" all have buried treasures hidden throughout the Caribbean. The manual [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] and discusses this: an excerpt from "Captain Sydney"'s memoirs points out the problems with burying treasure ("Seems to me that every time they buried their treasure, along'd come some blasted thief to dig it up and steal it."), while another sidebar discusses the historical accuracy, or lack thereof, of buried treasure.
*** The latter sidebar is even titled "Robert Louis Stevenson Has a Lot to Answer For".
* The ''Age of Pirates'' series averts the trope in the same way. While you can certainly find treasure hordes and ships with substantial sums of gold and silver aboard, the majority of your income will be from the regular cargo aboard your
* Similarly, the online game ''[[Puzzle Pirates]]'' has pieces of eight as the main currency, which is also dispensed as treasure following pillage. On the other hand, winning shipboard fights also entitles you to cannonballs, rum, and even pineapples and other produce. A little bit of trope, a little bit of truth.
* In ''[[Monster Hunter]] Tri'' one of the items found in the best treasure location is literally
* The PC game ''[[Crimson Skies]]'' has the first few missions centering around [[Sky Pirate]] Nathan Zachary attempting to retrieve the lost treasure of Sir Francis Drake. He and his crew end up having to battle a rival pirate gang, the Medusas, and the British Royal Navy who also want the treasure for themselves.
* Most of treasure in ''[[Dubloon]]'' can be found by digging, [[Guide Dang It|with varying levels of invisibility]].
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* On the rare occasions where a pirate ''did'' manage to get their hands on massive piles of gold and silver, they generally wound up becoming quite famous. For example, Francis Drake earned a knighthood and status as one of the founding heroes of the British Empire, largely by stealing Spanish treasure. Tons of it.
** Of course, he didn't bury it; he took it back to England. Where, predictably, most of his crew spent their shares of the treasure on drinking and whoring, also known as "the fun way" of putting said treasure into your sponsor nation's economy.
* Just [[Ripped from the Headlines|fresh from the headlines]]: [[Adventurer Archaeologist|certain US company]] lifted from the seafloor the load of [[Wooden Ships and Iron Men|early XIX-Century Spanish frigate sank by English privateers]], worth about half a billion USD. The Spanish government went to courts, arguing that it's their gold (for added fun, one of the other
** Salvage laws can be so incomprehensibly torturous that there are several very valuable wrecks whose locations are known today that have not been recovered because the value of the booty would be offset by legal fees.
* A Letter of Marque is basically a government license to plunder and act like a pirate. It's even explicitly authorized in the US Constitution! Though, spoil-sports in the 19th century agreed not to authorize them any more, and it is considered a war crime today.
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== Western Animation ==
* A brief sight gag on ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' shows that the Sea Captain pays his income tax in gold and jewels from a treasure chest. "Yarr, sometimes I wonder why I bother plunderin' at all."
** Parodied when Bart imagines that a pirate who inquires why the treasure should be buried instead of used is
* One episode of the ''[[Donkey Kong Country (animation)|Donkey Kong Country]]'' cartoon brought Scurvy and his crew into the plot by having them trying to find some treasure they buried on Kongo Bongo's beaches. It turns out burying treasure is part of [[The Code]], article and section and everything.
* Shows up on ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'', when Lucius accidently digs it up.
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