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In mint condition! Millions of pounds-worth of pristine 5th-century gold coins are found buried [tr]
UK Daily Mail ^ | September 9, 2018 | Charlie Moore

Posted on 09/10/2018 6:19:18 AM PDT by C19fan

A stash of fifth-century gold coins worth millions has been found buried in a pot under an Italian theatre.

Builders demolishing the former Cressoni theatre in Como were stunned to discover the cache last Wednesday.

The Roman coins will be examined and dated before ending up in a museum, officials said.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: albertobonisoli; coincollecting; coins; como; cressoni; epigraphyandlanguage; godsgravesglyphs; gold; italy; novumcomum; numismatics; romanempire; rome; treasure
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To: SES1066

Yea, I have four paper routes in 69-71, and some customers paid me with coins for my collection. Four fifteen am f ok r Dayton Journal Herald, then nc after school the Dayton Daily News and then 94 copies of the mega Sunday DDN. Tuesdays and Wednesdays the Shopping News for 300 a penny each. Thursday was the Business Weekly. Dad “made” me share the Shopping News with my two sisters... I was pulling in $32-36 s week in 7-8th grades whileUS Servicemen were dying in Nam for $62 a month.


41 posted on 09/10/2018 8:54:01 AM PDT by Jumper
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To: jim_trent
When the Hunt Silver spike came...

I spent about $3000 on some.

...sigh... :(

42 posted on 09/10/2018 11:57:23 AM PDT by Does so (If Trump Colluded with Russians, Why Did Hillary Win The Popular Vote?)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Silver Dollars were still in circulation in Nevada and Idaho in the 50s. When I was little I remember my dad taking me into a bar in Idaho. The long bar had 100s of silver dollars embedded in it. Not likely there any more.


43 posted on 09/11/2018 7:00:46 AM PDT by hanamizu
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To: hanamizu
The Million Dollar Cowboy Bar in Jackson, Wyoming is still open after 81 years. The bar is filled with embedded silver dollars. My dad took us in there in the early 60s. We took a family trip there six years ago and our kids loved the place! Funny, I don't recall looking for the silver dollar bar. There is also the Wort Hotel in Jackson with 2,032 silver dollars:


44 posted on 09/11/2018 9:24:23 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: hanamizu
Here is the bar in the Million Dollar Cowboy Bar...


45 posted on 09/11/2018 9:28:33 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Jumper

I had a morning Dayton Journal Herald route in East Dayton, too...and still recall those 4am mornings in my 5th thru 8th grades using “foot power”.

My route was just east of Wayne/Wyoming near Xenia, Fillmore, Pierce Streets.

As a Freshman at Stivers, I got a morning route at Miami Valley Hospital - just a tad warmer on those cold winter mornings. And breakfast with the doctors and nurses in the cafeteria. Nurses........

Later at Co-op, a job at Delco/GM in mail room during my Junior & Senior years.

Seems I’ve worked since I was 9 or 10.


46 posted on 09/11/2018 9:38:43 AM PDT by newfreep ("INSIDE EVERY PROGRESSIVE IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT" @HOROWITZ39, DAVID HOROWITZ)
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To: Red Badger

I have sympathy for the construction workers. You know the second they saw that pot they knew the day’s work was shot. Then when it broke open, they knew the month was shot.

And they probably got nothing for their efforts.


47 posted on 09/11/2018 9:43:17 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: C19fan
I think I see a coin of FLAVIVS LIBIVS SEVERVS SERPENTIVS AVGVSTVS ruler of the Western Empire from 461-165 AD.


48 posted on 09/11/2018 9:55:01 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Same idea as the Million Dollar Cowboy Bar—the dollars were inlaid in a black bar. But I recall it being straight, not curved, and the dollars weren’t in straight rows, but I remember being quite impressed. This was in the early 50s, can’t remember the name of the town, but I’m pretty sure it was in Idaho. Not nearly as big the Cowboy Bar.


49 posted on 09/11/2018 10:03:25 AM PDT by hanamizu
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To: hanamizu

Like you, I was really impressed and wide-eyed when Dad took me in to see the bar. In the 50s, a silver dollar was worth about $20 of today’s crappy money, so a big pile of Morgans was really something.


50 posted on 09/11/2018 11:49:43 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: BenLurkin; Red Badger; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; ...
Thanks BenLurkin and Red Badger, I missed your pings!

51 posted on 09/12/2018 10:51:45 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: hanamizu

I see signs for one of those bars in Idaho along I-90. I see that there is one in Leadore, ID, and another in Haugen, MT which is on I-90 in western Montana.

Back in the day spent lots of time in Jackson, and some of it at the Million Dollar Cowboy Bar.

Sad about Jackson Hole nowadays - all the millionaires are gone.
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The billionaires chased them all away.


52 posted on 09/12/2018 11:24:12 PM PDT by 21twelve
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To: C19fan

At first I thought
Millions of pounds of coins....that’s a lot...lol

43 pounds of quarters is 1000 bucks

A million pounds of quarters 23.25 million dollars worth


53 posted on 09/12/2018 11:30:49 PM PDT by wardaddy (Wake up and quit aping opinions you think will make you popular here)
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To: rigelkentaurus

I’ll go with he was hiding the gold from his wife or ex wife who killed him from vindictive spite


54 posted on 09/13/2018 4:24:13 AM PDT by bert ((KE. N.P. N.C. +12) Muller..... conspiracy to over throw the government)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

“Also, whatever happened to “finders, keepers?”

The government declared perpetual DIBS on anything of value.
Like the lottery, which the government makes millions on then taxes the hell out of any winnings some schlub gets.


55 posted on 09/13/2018 6:24:30 AM PDT by oldvirginian (American by birth, Southern by the Grace of God and Virginian because Jesus loves me)
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To: Jonty30
Does the finder get anything?Taxes....lots of taxes. That's why you keep your mouth shut and mail in one or 2 of those a month to PCGS and NGC and then sell them Slowly on Ebay with 0 capital gains.
56 posted on 09/13/2018 7:06:21 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (Quit calling them liberals, progs, socialists, or democrats. Call them what they are: COMMUNISTS!!!!)
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To: SES1066
This has been a weird year for me with my small change. After going through a long dry spell of not finding anything particularly interesting, over a span of about 2 months, I found a silver quarter, dime and nickel (i.e. wartime silver nickel)

I always look at my change. Never know what you'll find. I was at a convenience store a few years ago, and the guy had a bunch of .50 cent pieces in the drawer. I told him I'd take them all. Ended up being 2 90% silvers, and an entire roll of 40%. That was a great find.

57 posted on 09/13/2018 7:30:18 AM PDT by zeugma (Power without accountability is fertilizer for tyranny.)
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To: rigelkentaurus

A lot of hoards that are found today, buried for centuries, are probably the result of a murder of the owners.

Which only proves that you should spend most all your money is lavish living, women, whisky, and travel. You can waste the rest.


58 posted on 09/13/2018 7:37:34 PM PDT by wildbill (Quis Custodiet ipsos custodes? Who watches the watchmen?)
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