Re: Treasure hunter unearths 6,000 gold coins -- Ancien Roman Coins

On Oct 30, 9:33 pm, oly <oly2...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On Oct 30, 3:29 pm, Bob <RLWinne...@xxxxxxx> wrote:





Treasure hunter unearths 6,000 gold coins

Oct 30 2008 WalesOnline

A deposit of almost 6,000 ancient Roman coins was
unearthed in a farmer's field by a metal
detecting enthusiast.

A present-day value is yet to be put on the coins,
found buried in two pots and compared by one
expert to an early single European currency.

The pots' combined contents of 5,913 copper-alloy
coins from the early fourth century were uncovered
over two days in April near Sully, in the Vale of
Glamorgan.

Sorry, another newspaper error--the article plainly states that these
"gold" coins are made of "copper-alloy."  From an illustration, this
is true.  Also, the finder's idea of value seems way out of line, not
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I've seen two different internet articles on new large hoard finds in
the U.K. in recent days.  One was indeed a copper coin find, this
one???  It does seem that the two hoards were in widely separated
areas of England.  OTOH, 6000 gold coins would certainly be an immense
find.  There seems to be some confusion.

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It is also interesting on the new copper hoard find, that one of the
two finders found an earlier Roman hoard, but did not turn over all
the artifacts to the authorities. As a result, when this came to
light, his reward was "reduced" from 120,000 GB pounds to only 31,000
GB pounds. There is even a possibility that when he found this second
hoard, that he brought in a friend as the "discoverer" because of his
previous problems with the authorities.

oly

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