[weegee]

"It is possible somebody put them there and forgot about them..."

Put an advert in the lost and found column of the daily newspaper. If "he" doesn't come around to claim them, then he certainly has forgotten about them.

[SolutionsOnly]

***""It is possible somebody put them there and forgot about them..."***


It's more likely that someone hid them before getting whacked.

They belong to the finder. They aren't English coins. The Roman empire no longer exists. The answer can't be more obvious to me.