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These Gold Coins Were Stashed in a Stone Wall Nearly 1,400 Years Ago
Smithsonian Magazine ^
| October 11, 2022
| Molly Enking
Posted on 10/23/2022 11:40:21 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: C210N
I wonder how recently they were cast/struck Since they're Byzantine sometime between 330 and 1453. I would guess toward the end of that range. You're more likely to stash your gold in a wall when times are unsettled.
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posted on
10/23/2022 12:20:50 PM PDT
by
seowulf
(Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos...Will Durant)
To: Repeal The 17th
“Tried to hide them”? I’d say the effort was pretty successful for 1400 years.
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posted on
10/23/2022 12:28:19 PM PDT
by
Cincinnatus.45-70
(What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
To: SunkenCiv
Israeli archaeologists have discovered a secret stash of Byzantine-era coins inside a stone wall—where someone may have once tried to hide them.Probably from the tax man. Little changes over time.
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posted on
10/23/2022 12:30:04 PM PDT
by
llevrok
(Pronouns: Me/myself/& I)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
10/23/2022 12:32:11 PM PDT
by
telescope115
(Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
To: Repeal The 17th
This is before I was even born. And I’m pretty old.
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posted on
10/23/2022 12:33:43 PM PDT
by
SamAdams76
(4,345,996 active user on Truth Social)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
10/23/2022 12:35:13 PM PDT
by
ComputerGuy
(Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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posted on
10/23/2022 12:44:15 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: Spacetrucker
You’re lucky you have others around you to make sure you and your money are not permanently parted. 😉
To: Cincinnatus.45-70
Try not.
Do. Or do not.
There is no try.
To: seowulf
Ha! Now I know where you’ve stashed all your gold.
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posted on
10/23/2022 12:58:14 PM PDT
by
Silentgypsy
(In my defense, I was left unsupervised.)
To: SunkenCiv
Doubt it. They would have come back for it.
Sounds like they at least deprived the invaders of the loot.
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posted on
10/23/2022 1:11:39 PM PDT
by
Jewbacca
(The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
To: llevrok
Muslim invaders.
But your second point stands.
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posted on
10/23/2022 1:12:30 PM PDT
by
Jewbacca
(The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
To: Jewbacca
Not if they couldn’t return after they fled. They may have planned it that way though.
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posted on
10/23/2022 1:18:34 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: SunkenCiv
Someone “may” have hidden them? For 1400 years? Really good catch by the author.
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posted on
10/23/2022 1:20:56 PM PDT
by
subterfuge
(I'm a pure-blood!)
To: SunkenCiv
Wow. As a coin collector, those are beautiful!!
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posted on
10/23/2022 1:23:06 PM PDT
by
PGR88
To: subterfuge
Nearby there was a skeleton still leaning against a tree, with what used to be his eyes covered, of a guy who died while counting to a billion.
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posted on
10/23/2022 1:23:31 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: SunkenCiv
You have to wonder where all of King Solomon’s gold went.
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posted on
10/23/2022 1:23:50 PM PDT
by
grumpygresh
(Civil disobedience by non-compliance; jury and state nullification. )
To: PGR88
There may be many more waiting on the abyssal plain of the Med, in clay jars aboard what’s left of ancient wrecks.
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posted on
10/23/2022 1:25:42 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: grumpygresh
I’ve never wondered that. :^)
He had all those wives, and with all those Jewish attorneys around...
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posted on
10/23/2022 1:26:23 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: grumpygresh
Babylon. The looting of the Temple and king treasury is well documented.
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posted on
10/23/2022 1:33:13 PM PDT
by
Jewbacca
(The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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