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Guy With Metal Detector Finds $1 Million in Roman Coins
Gizmodo ^
| July 10, 2010
| Gizmodo
Posted on 07/10/2010 5:45:29 PM PDT by James C. Bennett
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To: James C. Bennett
Only worth 1 million? I am surprised they aren't worth more. I'll buy one from him right now.
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posted on
07/10/2010 5:49:47 PM PDT
by
Ditter
To: James C. Bennett
"Let me call in a buddy who's an expert in this sorta thing...."
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posted on
07/10/2010 5:55:01 PM PDT
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digger48
To: James C. Bennett
Looks more like a Romancoinus Rex dinosaur egg to me.
To: Ditter
Only worth 1 million?That's on $20 each. Lot's of people would pay more than that.
Some good marketing, presentation, certificates of authenticity, and all that would fetch a lot more.
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posted on
07/10/2010 6:02:11 PM PDT
by
Right Wing Assault
(The Obama magic is <strike>fading</strike>gone.)
To: Right Wing Assault
So ancient metal coins from a government which no longer exists hold their value moreso than Federal Reserve Notes printed on paper?
There’s a lesson in there somewhere.
To: digger48
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posted on
07/10/2010 6:07:40 PM PDT
by
Crawdad
(Obamacare will lead to back-alley physicals.)
To: digger48
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posted on
07/10/2010 6:10:47 PM PDT
by
John 3_19-21
(A lie told over and over again is still a lie.)
To: James C. Bennett
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posted on
07/10/2010 6:11:16 PM PDT
by
A. Morgan
To: James C. Bennett
This man is a fool for going public.
If he needed to contact the landowner, he should have done it privately.
If I ever find old coins I ain't telling nobody.
To: InternetTuffGuy
So ancient metal coins from a government which no longer exists hold their value moreso than Federal Reserve Notes printed on paper? Theres a lesson in there somewhere. Indeed.
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posted on
07/10/2010 6:13:24 PM PDT
by
mac_truck
( Aide toi et dieu t aidera)
To: digger48
Fake show. The only one mildly entertaining is the “old man”.
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posted on
07/10/2010 6:13:35 PM PDT
by
Lockbar
(March toward the sound of the guns.)
To: Lockbar
More staged then fake.
I enjoy it, but the owners have to feel a little slighted the way Chumley has become the star.
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posted on
07/10/2010 6:19:44 PM PDT
by
winodog
To: digger48
Everybody that cusses, puts money in the cuss jar.
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posted on
07/10/2010 6:20:50 PM PDT
by
Hillbillary
(I know how to deal with Communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
To: Lockbar
I bet he will get less of that than they say right now. I believe there are some rules over there about this type of stuff. Like the Gubment gets first dibs.
Might be wrong but I think I read about this a few months ago, not this one exactly but another treasure found in England.
Probably read it here on FR
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posted on
07/10/2010 6:21:47 PM PDT
by
BookaT
(My cat's breath smells like cat food!)
To: BookaT
I will second your recollection with my own memory of a recent historical find in the UK. IIRC, the Brit .gov has total say (not just first dibs) on historical artifacts. Basically “thanks for digging that up, old sod, we never would have found it without you — now begone with you...”
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posted on
07/10/2010 6:26:53 PM PDT
by
T-Bird45
(It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
To: Crawdad
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07/10/2010 6:29:59 PM PDT
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digger48
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
07/10/2010 6:33:52 PM PDT
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Outlaw Woman
(Blessed Is The Nation Whose God is the Lord. Psalm 33:12)
To: James C. Bennett
surprised the government dint take it...
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posted on
07/10/2010 6:36:50 PM PDT
by
Chode
(American Hedonist *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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07/10/2010 6:45:37 PM PDT
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packrat35
(Planned Parenthood... killing more blacks than the Ku Klux Klan could have ever dreamed of.)
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