Buried treasure found in Córdoba[Spain]

Typically Spanish ^ | 22 Sep 2009 | h.b.

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

I wouldn’t say a huge fortune. It’s right at 19 ounces of gold.

For example, a standard British soldier would have made six pence a day (he did, however have to pay for almost everything). That would equate out to a gross pay of just over 9 pounds sterling. The average ratio of gold to silver was about 1:16 at the time, so 9 pounds of silver would work out to 9 ounces of gold.

19 ounces would have been a few years of gross income for a common soldier (and quite a find to be sure!), but to an officer or a rent collecting noble, it would have been maybe half a year of net income.

For someone like Mr. Bingley from Pride and Prejudice (who was stated as having income of 4,000 to 5,000 pounds a year), it would have been a fairly inconsequential amount. (4,000 pounds sterling would have been about 250 pounds of gold a year)

[This_far]

If you know where to look, buried treasure can still be found in Spain.

or maybe not...

However he thinks the hiding place, next to the river, is a surprising one,

[BGHater]

This isn’t a ‘news’ article.

[SunkenCiv]

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[TheOldLady]

[SunkenCiv]

I’m coin to have to save that image.

[TheOldLady]

Put it in a specie place.

[SunkenCiv]

I currency any reason not to.

[BunnySlippers]

Rich Corinthian Leather [TM]

[TheOldLady]

I gold you it was okay.

[SunkenCiv]

Eight that the truth.

[TheOldLady]

We’ve been cerebrating, so I’ll have a whiskey, and you can have a tot aurum.

[SunkenCiv]

I’ve been bullion people with puns for years, but I’m runnin’ out of ‘em in this context.

[TheOldLady]

I treasure your comments, Darlin.’

[SunkenCiv]

Shiver me timbers!

[TheOldLady]

Thank you, but you really should keep those timbers intact. Perish the thought that you’d actually become a sunken civilization!

[SunkenCiv]

Yo ho ho. :’)