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Massive hoard of Roman-era silver coins unearthed in Germany
Live Science ^ | November 17 or so, 2021 | Owen Jarus

Posted on 11/19/2021 10:51:54 PM PST by SunkenCiv

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To: SunkenCiv

Unless Ceasar’s image is on these coins, they are fakes. I have that on high authority... :)

“Show me a denarius. Whose image and inscription are on it?” “Caesar’s,” they replied.


21 posted on 11/20/2021 1:36:42 AM PST by BiglyCommentary
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To: SunkenCiv

That’s a lot of “whole life” stories.

“There’s no pleasing some people.”


22 posted on 11/20/2021 1:54:48 AM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: algore

Heh


23 posted on 11/20/2021 2:28:10 AM PST by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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To: SunkenCiv

👍😃


24 posted on 11/20/2021 2:29:02 AM PST by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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To: SunkenCiv

There was.

Environmentalists savaged it, fairly razing it to the ground.

A short while later, an enterprising developer came along, and now it’s a teeming Vancouver suburb known as Minivancouver.


25 posted on 11/20/2021 2:37:41 AM PST by HKMk23 (The right of freedom of religion shall not be derogated even if the life of the nation is at stake.)
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To: SunkenCiv

“Quinctilius Varus, give me back my denarii!” Said Octavian - never!


26 posted on 11/20/2021 3:11:02 AM PST by SES1066 (Ask not what the LEFT can do for you, rather ask what the LEFT is doing to YOU!)
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To: SunkenCiv

27 posted on 11/20/2021 4:33:14 AM PST by blam
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To: SunkenCiv

This is all well and good, but Apmex is selling Baby Yoda coins on Monday. Way more important ;)


28 posted on 11/20/2021 4:52:06 AM PST by Malsua
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To: SunkenCiv

Looks like a stash of quarters!


29 posted on 11/20/2021 4:58:20 AM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: LukeL

Yep. Lose/Lose for the paymaster: “By Jupiter, I swear! It was right HERE!”


30 posted on 11/20/2021 5:03:03 AM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: crusher2013

It hasn’t. Silver is a commodity and fluctuates as does any commodity.


31 posted on 11/20/2021 7:26:06 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SES1066

:^)


32 posted on 11/20/2021 8:37:25 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: HKMk23

AKA the Losercouver...


33 posted on 11/20/2021 8:38:04 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: BradyLS

The barbarian horde arrived on casino night at the barracks.


34 posted on 11/20/2021 9:08:57 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: BiglyCommentary

“Caesar! Who made the salad?”


35 posted on 11/20/2021 9:11:50 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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By the time it was sacked by the Huns in the 5th c AD, the city was older than most people in the US are living in.

[snip] The city of Augsburg was founded in 15 BC on the orders of Emperor Augustus. Emperor Augustus conducted extensive military campaigns and established administrative settlements. The settlement that became Augsburg was known as Augusta Vindelicorum, meaning “the Augustan city of the Vindelici”. The settlement was established at the convergence of the Alpine rivers Lech and Wertach. In 120 AD Augsburg became the administrative capital of the Roman province Raetia. Augsburg was sacked by the Huns in the 5th century AD, by Charlemagne in the 8th century, and by Welf I, Duke of Bavaria in the 11th century. [/snip]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augsburg#Early_history


36 posted on 11/20/2021 9:16:22 AM PST by SunkenCiv ("This is the type of errant pedantry up with which I will not put." -- Winston Churchill)
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To: lefty-lie-spy

:^)


37 posted on 11/20/2021 9:16:51 AM PST by SunkenCiv ("This is the type of errant pedantry up with which I will not put." -- Winston Churchill)
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To: Bobalu
You just showed two one ounce silver coins - one from USA and one from Canada. The USA one is 34x face value and the Canadian one is 6x face value.

Why the disparity? Why would an ounce of silver have such a different value just because of where it was minted?

38 posted on 11/20/2021 9:21:22 AM PST by SamAdams76 (I am 11 days away from outliving Holly Dunn)
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To: SamAdams76

The US 1oz coin has a marked face value of 1 dollar.
The Canadian 1oz coin has a marked face value of 5 dollars Canadian.

The Canadian also has a lower premium above spot than the US coin.


39 posted on 11/20/2021 9:36:05 AM PST by Bobalu (Figure out what you like, learn enough to be dangerous, and then start fiddling around)
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To: Bobalu

OK, that makes sense. Thanks.


40 posted on 11/20/2021 9:38:37 AM PST by SamAdams76 (I am 11 days away from outliving Holly Dunn)
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