seeder Posted November 20, 2015 #1 Share Posted November 20, 2015 In the money! Massive hoard of 4,000 Roman coins unearthed in Switzerland after lying undisturbed under a cherry tree for 1,700 years Hoard is one of biggest of its kind ever to have been found in Switzerland Buried some 1,700 years ago, the coins collectively weigh 33lbs (15kg) They bear the impressions of Roman Emperors Aurelian and Maximillian Farmer who discovered them beneath a cherry tree won't get reward Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3326915/Hoard-4-000-Roman-coins-unearthed-Money-laid-undisturbed-beneath-Swiss-cherry-tree-1-700-years.html#ixzz3s2Z3eq34 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davros of Skaro Posted November 20, 2015 #2 Share Posted November 20, 2015 Nice find! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHaYap Posted November 20, 2015 #3 Share Posted November 20, 2015 The Farmer who found it should have at least get something fer gawd's sakes ~ ~ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mac E Posted November 20, 2015 #4 Share Posted November 20, 2015 That's a nice find! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M 7 Posted November 20, 2015 #5 Share Posted November 20, 2015 Can you still spend these bad boys? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pallidin Posted November 20, 2015 #6 Share Posted November 20, 2015 Well, you can certainly sell them to willing coin collector's, I suppose. Of course, I don't know what laws in that country govern finds such as these. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TripGun Posted November 23, 2015 #7 Share Posted November 23, 2015 I would become the Count of Monte Cristo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeek wulfe Posted November 27, 2015 #8 Share Posted November 27, 2015 These coins are of only marginal value unless made of gold, silver or are of extreme rarity. Roman coins were used from mintage date to, well, I recently saw a woman wearing a bracelet featuring a coin minted during the reign of Elagabalus in the third century CE. Roman coins were even transported to the New World. From time to time coins are fou d amongst old Indian artefacts. No, neither Cato or Pliny the Younger ever visited Alabama, but Spanish explorers with coins in their pockets did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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