[SunkenCiv]

[Lurker]

Damn Vandals.

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[CJ Wolf]

Was it scattered or in a box?
Maybe the box or bag fell off a running away thief’s chariot?

[Lurker]

I had absolutely no idea that a Denari was worth ten asses.

History is fun.

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[21twelve]

I was amazed at having a stash of coins ranging over a 100 years in age. That would be like having a a bunch of quarters from 1910 in my loose change jar.

I’m guessing they didn’t have a treasury department that would keep all of the old silver coins and replace them with new coins made out of tin.

[BipolarBob]

The last thing I would do is tell everybody about it. especially the greedy government.

[MachIV]

Stranger than that...ancient Roman coins were found in the early 1960s on the banks of the Ohio River when construction crews started digging to build a giant pier on the Indiana side of the river for what would eventually become the Sherman Minton Bridge that carrys I64 from Kentucky to Indiana. Coins were once displayed at the Falls of the Ohio museum in Clarksville Indiana.

[treetopsandroofs]

Cool. My oldest is an 1864 2-cent piece, found in a pile of old coins I bought for five dollars 45 years ago.

Best ever found in circulation:
Blank penny planchet
1929 Washington Quarter

I received several consecutively numbered newer 2-dollar bills as a tip about 35 years ago.

[aquila48]

Just think of all the buried Bitcoins farmers will discover 2000 years from now!

[poconopundit]

SunkenCiv -- Among the discovered coins I heard has a portrait of a hitherto unknown Roman Emperor, Triumphius Maximus... Another coin -- in remarkable condition -- was found of his wife.  This coin suggests that stiletto high heels were fashionable in the rein of Emperor Triumphius.

[Rebelbase]

"Anyone can find coins in a farm field. All you do is drag a plow around and the coins pop up out of the ground."