The fronts and backs of six of the 11 gold coins from the Roman Empire found in the English countryside. (Image credit: Adrian Marsden )PinGGG!.......................
The fronts and backs of six of the 11 gold coins from the Roman Empire found in the English countryside. (Image credit: Adrian Marsden )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*
Render onto Caesar that which is Caesars’. My last name is Caesar.
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?
The Detectorists is a great and funny British miniseries.
When will people learn to keep their mouths shut?
The government gets what, all of it?
I hate these archeology/paleontology news because they imply something was JUST found, when in fact it happened years ago.
No one wants to tell the news.
I think the only time we got timely “discovery” reporting was when the Titanic was spotted.
Can you see all those Romans burying their stash and telling it don’t worry I’ll be back ,LOL
My XP Deus II metal detector will pay off big one of these days. (I do pretty well, but nowhere near THAT we’ll). The metal detectorist Ed in the UK have it pretty good access to unbelievable finds, but must turn hoards into the government and hope they get their “fair value” payback after years and years of litigation.
Shouldn't this news have waited until next month?
We've already had July's Caesar story about the guy being excavated from a pizza vent.
So it was a high capacity hoard then.
Fascinating?
Do the finders get to be keepers?
Early bitcoins, mined from a field...