The Brescello Hoard – the largest and most valuable hoard of Roman coins ever found

Ancient Coins (blogspot) ^ | September 4, 2018 | Posted by Dario

[mylife]

sucks these coins were melted down

[Freedom4US]

Any word on how the “peasant” who discovered the hoard fared in this fortuitous discovery? Did he get to keep some of the treasure? Or did he get an extra Turnip and told “get back to work”?

[BenLurkin]

That would make a lot of nice gold candlesticks.

[babble-on]

If you get a chance, watch “Detectorists” on Acorn TV, about British treasure hunters.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

...after dispersing a relatively small part, the rest was melted to mint ducats!

How tragic and awful!

[rlmorel]

Hahahaha wow, a blast from the past.

Last time I heard that joke was the only time I remember hearing it some fifty years ago!

[CJ Wolf]

You said it was horrible and you didn’t get through it, I’ve clicked many tube videos to only ditch.

It has a nice graphic to start.

[Eagles6]

Hoard Wheat pennies?

So if you pay her with wheat pennies you get a discount, or what?

How's that work?🤔

Asking for a friend. I actually found a 1936 Buffalo nickel in my change a few months ago.

[CJ Wolf]

So...

How many antique infantry roman soldiers would this pay for?

[CJ Wolf]

You sucked me in.

[John Milner]

I wonder what the numismatic value of those ducats is now, 400 years later?

[John Milner]

Sorry 300 years later. Can’t even claim I ran out of fingers. Just lazy math brain tonight.

[crosdaddy]

Way,way more than the melt.

[lefty-lie-spy]

Time to take my own metal detecting to the next level and break the record. C’mon baby, we can do this!

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

Were the coins dated “38 BC”?

[mylife]

makes ya wanna cry.

[going hot]

I would like to imagine he stashed a small amount for later. Quietly retired, and moved far away.

[BradyLS]

I found a 1943 nickel in change a few years ago. That’s as far back as I’ve ever found when paying attention. I’m sure I had pennies from that far back in earlier as a kid.

Because of their silver content, quarters from 1964 and back started becoming scarce around 1980, IIRC. Still, I’ve found a few from the early 60’s. It’s still not too hard to find “Bicentennial” (1976) quarters in your change.

[SunkenCiv]

;^)

[SunkenCiv]

He didn’t get the turnip either — as a matter of fact, after it was found out how much time he’d spent digging it up, he wasn’t even paid for the full day.