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Ancient hoard of gold Roman coins discovered in plowed UK field
https://www.livescience.com ^
| JULY 12, 2022
| By Jennifer Nalewicki
Posted on 07/13/2022 8:17:45 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: SunkenCiv
PinGGG!.......................
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posted on
07/13/2022 8:18:12 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Red Badger
The fronts and backs of six of the 11 gold coins from the Roman Empire found in the English countryside. (Image credit: Adrian Marsden )
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posted on
07/13/2022 8:18:43 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Red Badger
Hey! I plow up a LOT of land around here. How come I never find these Roman coins in MY fields?
*Dumb Blonde Mode - OFF*
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posted on
07/13/2022 8:20:15 AM PDT
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
To: Red Badger
Render onto Caesar that which is Caesars’. My last name is Caesar.
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posted on
07/13/2022 8:20:47 AM PDT
by
Huskrrrr
(Alinsky, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book!)
To: Red Badger
Absolutely LOVED the series, ‘Detectorists.’ Wish it could’ve gone on forever. :)
The final scene was SO well played! ;)
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posted on
07/13/2022 8:22:07 AM PDT
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
To: Diana in Wisconsin
When I was a kid in Mississippi, I used to look for arrowheads in freshly plowed fields especially right after a rain! They are worth $ nowadays!....................
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posted on
07/13/2022 8:22:45 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Red Badger
11 coins is a “hoard”?
Inflation isn’t that bad is it?
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posted on
07/13/2022 8:23:22 AM PDT
by
glorgau
To: Red Badger
Whenever I see one of these stories about a cache of coins turning up after 1500, 1800, 2000 years, whatever, I wonder, “How did that happen?” Anyone have a sense of the conventional wisdom on the topic? Miser buries their hoard and then dies before telling anyone where to find? Something like that?
To: Red Badger
The Detectorists is a great and funny British miniseries.
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posted on
07/13/2022 8:23:27 AM PDT
by
willk
(Local news media. Just as dangerous as national media.)
To: Red Badger; SunkenCiv
How could the Romans be so good at engraving but so bad at punching out the coins?
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posted on
07/13/2022 8:24:23 AM PDT
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(“...see whether we in our day and generation may not perform something worthy to be remembered.”)
To: glorgau
11 ‘ounces’ of gold = about $20,000, so yeah, it’s a ‘hoard’...............
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posted on
07/13/2022 8:24:56 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: glorgau
Then and now, 11 gold coins is real money.
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posted on
07/13/2022 8:27:10 AM PDT
by
Romulus
To: Diana in Wisconsin; Red Badger
Yes, arrowheads galore after turning the earth behind a tractor!
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posted on
07/13/2022 8:29:12 AM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Maybe the size has something to do with it. They didn’t have magnifying glasses yet..................
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posted on
07/13/2022 8:30:03 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Red Badger
The numismatic value of newly discovered Roman coins will be many times the melt value.
To melt these for their bullion value would be criminally stupid.
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posted on
07/13/2022 8:30:16 AM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
To: Travis McGee
I thought old Roman coins were rather common..................
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posted on
07/13/2022 8:31:51 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Red Badger
By the time Biden is done , they will be “worth” over $40,000.
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posted on
07/13/2022 8:32:28 AM PDT
by
wrench
To: Red Badger
Those coins are over 2 cm, close to one inch diameter. Some of them were punched 20% off-center.
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posted on
07/13/2022 8:32:42 AM PDT
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(“...see whether we in our day and generation may not perform something worthy to be remembered.”)
To: Red Badger
When I was a kid in Mississippi, I used to look for arrowheads in freshly plowed fields especially right after a rain! They are worth $ nowadays!.................... When I was a kid in Virginia, other kids found Civil War bullets in the plowed earth. There was one kid who had a whole cigar box full of them, he showed me.
They looked like weathered lumps of lead. Some of them had a recognizable shape; when I later learned what a Minie ball was, I knew that's what these were.
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posted on
07/13/2022 8:35:42 AM PDT
by
Steely Tom
([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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