Visited Sardis several times when I was assigned to a Nato base in Izmir. Since I visited the temple site, my gut kept telling me there is a tomb filled with gold at the base of the mountain. Somehow it is related to Alexander.
Posted on 02/02/2010 9:15:34 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Dating from 211 BC and found near the Leicestershire village of Hallaton, the coin was uncovered with 5,000 other coins, a helmet and a decorated bowl.
Unearthed in 2000 by a metal detectorist, staff at the nearby Harborough Museum have only just realised its significance.
One side of the coin depicts the goddess Roma wearing her characteristic helmet while mythical twins Castor and Pollux sit astride galloping horses on the reverse.
David Sprason, Leicestershire County Council cabinet member for communities and well-being said: 'Leicestershire boasts the largest number of Iron Age coins ever professionally excavated in Britain.
'To also have the oldest Roman coin ever found is something very special.'
The type of coin, known as a denarius, was first struck in Rome in 211 BC, making the Hallaton coin a very early version, the council said...
Professor David Mattingly of the University of Leicester's School of Archaeology and Ancient History... added... 'It was minted in Rome at the time of the Hannibalic wars and here it is turning up after what must have been quite a long journey,' he said.
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I guess Roman coins pretty well used Imperator portraits rather than symbolic pictures starting with Julius Caesar. Some did have dates in the form ‘in the xth year in the Consulship of a and b’, I believe.
Visited Sardis several times when I was assigned to a Nato base in Izmir. Since I visited the temple site, my gut kept telling me there is a tomb filled with gold at the base of the mountain. Somehow it is related to Alexander.
Ping!
That is interesting, really. It’s not talked about, but a great many of the headline-grabbing discoveries have been attributed by their discoverers to that kind of feeling, hunch, whatever term. I’m trying to remember off the top of my head if ‘Lex wandered through Sardis on the way to conquering the Persian Empire.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9907E4DE1539EF3ABC4C52DFB0668389639EDE
hahaha getting interesting. Located this a few minutes ago.
Gold coins found in 1922
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