SOMETIMES you don't know what you've got until it's gone.
It appears a pair of thieves who robbed an Irish pharmacy in 2009 failed to realise they had nicked a priceless artifact when they dumped a safe and its seemingly worthless contents into a skip in Dublin.
What they didn't realise was inside the safe was a priceless 5,000-year-old gold necklace.
"Those thieves missed out big time when they unknowingly threw this treasure away," a spokesperson for the National Museum of Ireland said.
The 78g jewel is believed to have belonged to an early king of Ireland, the Irish Examiner reported.
The necklace had found its way to the Strokestown Pharmacy in Roscommon, after a local man discovered it while cutting turf in the nearby Coggalbeg bog in 1945.
The pharmacy's owner had treated the golden piece as a family heirloom since.
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