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A hoard of Roman coins worth over $125,000 was found during a construction project in central England. The stash of gold and silver coins date back to the reign of Rome's Emperor Nero, according ...
The face value of the coins totaled $27,980, but was assessed to be worth $10 million. The hoard contains $27,460 in twenty-dollar coins, $500 in ten-dollar coins, and $20 in five-dollar coins, all dating from 1847 to 1894. The collection is the largest known discovery of buried gold coins that has ever been recovered in the United States. [1]
Archaeologists Unearth 1,600 Ancient German Coins bee32 - Getty Images The value of the roughly 1,600 coins recovered was deemed enough to have purchased 150 sheep at the time.
The person who found the hoard requested anonymity and sources say that he is a man. Many of the coins were found in the ground with pieces of a cloth bag and one of the coins was damaged from farm equipment. [1] [2] There were a total of 800 Civil War–era coins in the hoard and 700 of them were gold coins. [3]
The Hoard today in the British Museum. In 1966 the Fishpool Hoard of 1,237 15th century gold coins, four rings and four other pieces of jewellery, and two lengths of gold chain [1] [2] was discovered by workmen on a building site near present-day Cambourne Gardens, in Ravenshead, Nottinghamshire, England, an area that was then known as "Fishpool".
During that excavation, researchers found even more coins, including gold pieces. In total, 748 coins, dated from as early as 206 B.C., were recovered. ... The coins may have been buried by a long ...
The Trier Gold Hoard is a hoard of 2516 [1] (or 2518) [2] [3] gold coins with a weight of 18.5 kg found in Trier, Germany, in September 1993 during construction works. It is described as the largest preserved Roman gold hoard worldwide. [4] The hoard is on exhibition at the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier.
Gold coins buried in a small pot and dated to the fifth century B.C. were discovered in modern-day Turkey. Archaeologists believe that the coins—based on their location underneath a Helensitic ...