Farmer Finds Roman Treasure Trove Scattered Across Field [Poland]

Science in Poland ^ | 1 April 2020 | Szymon Zdzieblowski

[SunkenCiv]

A farmer has discovered one of the largest hauls of Roman coins to ever be found in Poland.

Mariusz Dyl had been looking for abandoned antlers in a field near Cichobórz, south of Hrubieszów, Lublin, when he stumbled upon the 2,000-year-old coins scattered across 100 metres of the field.

After calling in experts, the 1,753 coins weighing 5.5kg and which were found in 2019, were taken to the Hrubieszów Museum where they have now been analysed and their authenticity confirmed.

Director of the Museum Bartlomiej Bartecki said... all the coins, had been originally placed in a wooden box or leather pouch. While the remains of the container have not survived, it is known that it was decorated with silver-plated bronze rivets.

The oldest denarii bear the image of the Roman emperor Nerva, and the latest - Septimius Severus. “We can therefore conclude that the coins were minted over a period of about 100 years, from the end of the 1st to the end of the 2nd century AD,” says Bartecki.

In the 2nd century AD, the region of present-day Lublin was inhabited by the Vandals. They were driven out by the Goths...

[SunkenCiv]

[Lurker]

Damn Vandals.

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[CJ Wolf]

Was it scattered or in a box?
Maybe the box or bag fell off a running away thief’s chariot?

[bunkerhill7]

All roads in Poland lead to Rome.

[Lurker]

I had absolutely no idea that a Denari was worth ten asses.

History is fun.

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[dfwgator]

Damn Vandals.

They took all the handles.

[21twelve]

I was amazed at having a stash of coins ranging over a 100 years in age. That would be like having a a bunch of quarters from 1910 in my loose change jar.

I’m guessing they didn’t have a treasury department that would keep all of the old silver coins and replace them with new coins made out of tin.

[BipolarBob]

The last thing I would do is tell everybody about it. especially the greedy government.

[DesertRhino]

Straight up vandalism...

[Viking2002]

"In the 2nd century AD, the region of present-day Lublin was inhabited by the Vandals. They were driven out by the Goths...after whom came the Heathens who burned the chuches and peed in the drinking wells. Several centuries later, the Hooligans from Ireland overran the region, drank a stange concoction invented by a shopkeeper named Jameson that started soccer riots, and were finally quelled when the Poles invented odd-looking sausages and a clear liquid fermented from the potato peels left over from the cooking of a delicacy known as 'pirogi'."

Ain't history a hoot?

[MachIV]

Stranger than that...ancient Roman coins were found in the early 1960s on the banks of the Ohio River when construction crews started digging to build a giant pier on the Indiana side of the river for what would eventually become the Sherman Minton Bridge that carrys I64 from Kentucky to Indiana. Coins were once displayed at the Falls of the Ohio museum in Clarksville Indiana.

[dfwgator]

Mmmmmm, Pierogies!

[Lurker]

Seriously, a denari was worth ten asses. I looked it up.

Them must have been some fine asses.

Imagine, ten asses right in the palm of your hand...

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[Viking2002]

I did have ten assses right in the palm of my hand once. Seven of them slapped me, the boyfriend of another threatened to break my nose, but I think I got along fine with the two who were left. I wasn't sober enough to remember the details at that point.

[treetopsandroofs]

Cool. My oldest is an 1864 2-cent piece, found in a pile of old coins I bought for five dollars 45 years ago.

Best ever found in circulation:
Blank penny planchet
1929 Washington Quarter

I received several consecutively numbered newer 2-dollar bills as a tip about 35 years ago.

[Deaf Smith]

Farmer/Poland

Either a pulled disc or plow over the years or air dropped bombs during WWII scattered the coins from it's container.

I would lean towards a plow over the years created the debris field.

[CJ Wolf]

Dumb farmer. Lol.

[hanamizu]

I had absolutely no idea that a Denarius was worth ten asses.

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An as was a Roman copper coin about the size of a quarter but a bit thicker. Two asses were a dupondius and four were a sestertius. The denarius was about the size of our dimes, but again thicker.

[Lurker]

Thanks for the info, I think.

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[Lurker]

I thought two asses were a goodtimius and four were an exhaustius.

My mistake.

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