WOW!! Those coins look new. Those coins are Solidus. Each Solidus contains 4.5 grams of gold.
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09/10/2018 6:19:18 AM PDT by
C19fan
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To: C19fan
Oops. I spilled my lunch. Let me get this cleaned up so you chaps can keep digging this hole.......
2 posted on
09/10/2018 6:21:28 AM PDT by
Delta 21
(Splodeyhead is the only cure for MAGAphobia)
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3 posted on
09/10/2018 6:22:46 AM PDT by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: C19fan
so that’s where I left them!..........................
4 posted on
09/10/2018 6:23:28 AM PDT by
Red Badger
(July 2018 - the month the world learns the TRUTH......Q Anon.......Timelines change. Aug 16)
To: C19fan
Just wondering exactly what kind of an Italian theatre this was?
5 posted on
09/10/2018 6:23:56 AM PDT by
Delta 21
(Splodeyhead is the only cure for MAGAphobia)
To: C19fan
The irony and lesson is that whoever the final owner was, he accumulated great wealth but never enjoyed it. Still happens all the time.
8 posted on
09/10/2018 6:25:07 AM PDT by
allendale
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To: C19fan
To: C19fan
Does the finder get anything?
10 posted on
09/10/2018 6:25:49 AM PDT by
Jonty30
(What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death by cults.)
To: C19fan
12 posted on
09/10/2018 6:25:54 AM PDT by
Lazamataz
(On future maps, I suggest we remove the word "California" and substitute "Open-Air Asylum".)
To: C19fan
I’m thinking somebody may have buried it to keep the barbarian invaders from getting it, but got killed during the invasion therefore the gold stayed in the ground because no-one knew about it except the guy who buried it, and he died.
To: C19fan
It appears a significant number of them have been debased, clipped. But some still have reeded edges.
To: C19fan
Very cool, thanks for posting!
To: C19fan
My gold is Lincoln Wheat Back Pennies. Found a 1917 three years ago, got a 1929 from my wife this week, and last month scored a 1934. Been collecting coins since 1968 and other than a family selling about 15 lbs of silver during the Hunt Brother's runup.... I'm just lov'n it!
Does anyone somehow not thing the Government with take a majority of these coins.
24 posted on
09/10/2018 6:57:45 AM PDT by
Jumper
To: C19fan
Gold coins nearly always look good. Gold doesn’t really deteriorate. From a few that I can read the coins look to be from a late stage of the Roman Empire—the portraits have very little of the artistic quality of the earlier Empire. I see at least one inscription that begins with ‘DN’ which is short for Our Lord which again is used later in the Empire. One post speculates that they were buried during a barbarian invasion which the owner didn’t survive, which seems likely to me. The theater just happened to be built over a thousand years later over the site.
27 posted on
09/10/2018 7:16:00 AM PDT by
hanamizu
To: C19fan
Gold doesn’t tarnish.
Also, whatever happened to “finders, keepers?”
28 posted on
09/10/2018 7:18:46 AM PDT by
Pearls Before Swine
("It's always a party when you're eating the seed corn.")
To: C19fan
Shovel, pocket and shut up...
32 posted on
09/10/2018 7:50:09 AM PDT by
JimRed
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To: C19fan
34 posted on
09/10/2018 7:55:24 AM PDT by
W.
(Boom!)
To: C19fan
They made money the old fashioned way...
they urn it
To: C19fan
To hell with odes to Grecian urns
I’ll sing a song of sixpence a trill-ion times
to these
To: C19fan
Talk about Cinema Paradiso!
To: C19fan
I think I see a coin of FLAVIVS LIBIVS SEVERVS SERPENTIVS AVGVSTVS ruler of the Western Empire from 461-165 AD.
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