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It all started with a pile of coins. Twenty years ago, Sydney surfer Leigh was snorkelling at Bondi Beach when he noticed a string of coins at the bottom of the seabed. “'Wow, what's all this money doing here?' I dusted off some sand and saw that there was more money. I thought, 'God, I should get a metal detector or something.' Famous last words,” he told news.au. Instantly hooked, Leigh has spent last 15 years searching for treasure in the canals and fields of world; She also added jewelry, money, weapons, motorcycles and more. “I used to be a surfer chasing perfect waves around the world. "I now hunt for treasure all over the world," said Leigh, who shared her findings on social media under the name "Bondi Treasure Hunter". Two weeks ago, solar panel salesman turned treasure hunter got huge shock when he found safe belonging to member of the royal family. At the time he made the discovery, Leigh was with friends at magnet finishing process at an undisclosed location abroad, where a magnet attached to string was thrown into water to retrieve items. “It was definitely a shock,” the 42-year-old actor recalled. After throwing open the safe, she found a collection of foreign passports, documents, keys, empty jewelry boxes and other personal items. "We Googled the name on the passport and found out it belonged to a royal family." Leigh is in front of the cash register with her friends Wim and Joopie. Leigh, who could not explain which royal family safe belonged due to ongoing police investigation, said that she followed owner on social media return personal items. "I called him on Facebook... and said, 'Are you a member of the royal family?' I asked and they said 'yes'. “I think I said, ‘I found the Crown Jewels.’ We both laughed.” Treasure worth thousands of dollars This was just one of hundreds of safes Leigh found in canals around the world, some looted and thrown away by criminals. What's inside is always a mystery; some contain credit cards, car keys, coins and guns, while others are completely empty. “We found coin collection in a safe, including large silver coin from the 1700s,” Leigh said. On another occasion, came across crate so large that he had to rent a crane to lift it out of canal in Amsterdam, where now lives. Inside was a collection of commemorative coins that Leigh had handed over to the police. "After a year they weren't collected, so we had to keep them." Leigh's most valuable find was $5,000 worth of jewelry collected from Croatia, France, Italy, Australia and the Netherlands. His entire haul is worth tens thousands dollars, consisting thousands items, including guns from the 1800s, knives and cannonballs from the 1600s, as well as modern items like motorcycles, phones and GoPros. But Leigh isn't selling her treasure, her favorite being a 1600s Rose Noble gold coin. Instead, she makes money through social media and keeps her finds for own collection,