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The English term treasure trove was derived from tresor trové, the Anglo-French [1] equivalent of the Latin legal term thesaurus inventus. In 15th-century English the Anglo-French term was translated as "treasure found", but from the 16th century it began appearing in its modern form with the French word trové anglicized as trovey, trouve or ...
A hoard of loot is a buried collection of spoils from raiding and is more in keeping with the popular idea of "buried treasure". Votive hoards are different from the above in that they are often taken to represent permanent abandonment, in the form of purposeful deposition of items, either all at once or over time for ritual purposes, without ...
The 11th-century coin trove, known as the Chew Valley Hoard, is now England’s most valuable treasure find, revealing new information about the historical transition following the Norman Conquest.
Other items commonly hoarded include coins considered to have an intrinsic value, such as those minted in silver, or gold, as well as collectibles, jewelry, precious metals [4] and other luxuries. According to previous [ 5 ] studies, anthropomorphism , or the propensity to attribute human characteristics to non-human items, has been associated ...
Hence, economic speculators tend to hoard products that are inelastic in price so that when the price of the product does increase, the demand for that product is maintained. [ 5 ] [ 2 ] Unlike investing, hoarded goods are excluded from an economy’s flow of money [ 6 ] and purchasing goods for hoarding generally occurs in markets operating ...
A smaller hoard had been found at this site in 1960. [6] The 1978 hoard consisted of 54,951 coins weighing over 180 kilograms (390 lb). [7] Most of the coins were low value Radiates, [8] however there were significant numbers of Antoniniani, [9] some of which dated from the reign of Gallienus (253–268). [10]
The Valsadornín Hoard is a coin hoard from the Roman Hispania period (dated circa 270) found near the town of Valsadornín, in the province of Palencia, Spain. The artifact is a 28 kg kitchen cauldron with a conical bottom, made of thin metal sheets joined by rivets. It originally had two copper-handled rivets, one remaining.
This is the third hoard of coins to be found in the area in the past 25 years, according to the BBC. In 2011, two metal detectorists found a clay pot full of 3,784 coins, the BBC said, and in 1999 ...