Fortunate American readers who happen to have silver coins, now know a proven method of hiding wealth for up to 1800 years. Yahoo!!!
As long as one doesn’t need it in that interval, it should be cool.
I once knew someone (grew up in the UK) who was a bit of a ne’er do well, and he told me about his exploits of metal detector-ing across the British landscape. He didn’t quite come right out and say specifics, only that it was a living for a while.
It’s a challenge to find any buried ancient coins, even from Roman times, because currency was generally carried rather than buried, and if lost, probably the next person wandering by at that time picked them up.
The treasury from the Temple of Isis in Pompeii was found still clutched (I think still in the leather bag) in the hand of the skeleton of one of the priests or other temple employees.