Regione Siciliana
Posted on 09/09/2024 8:26:30 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
According to a Reuters report, 27 silver Roman coins were discovered in the ancient Greek acropolis on the remote Mediterranean island of Pantelleria by a team of researchers led by archaeologist Thomas Schaefer of the University of Tübingen. He thinks that the coins, which first surfaced in loose soil after heavy rains, may have been hidden during a pirate attack. Additional coins were later found under a nearby rock. Analysis of the coins shows that they were minted in Rome between 94 and 74 B.C. "This discovery... offers valuable information for the reconstruction of the events, trade contacts, and political relations that marked the Mediterranean in the Republican age," commented regional councilor for cultural heritage Francesco Paolo Scarpinato.
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Beautiful condition.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantelleria
https://www.comunepantelleria.it/
https://search.brave.com/search?q=island+of+Pantelleria
Hiding wealth from the TAXMAN.......................
Beauties. The wiki-wacki page has a pic of a Carthaginian coin found on the island.
The place was Greek, Carthaginian, Roman, Carthaginian again, then Roman. Lovers of “I, Claudius” will remember the name as a place of exile during imperial times.
Sez here it’s windy, and part of a live volcano, no sandy beaches, might still be a nice place to visit during the summer.
They were probably running from invaders, pirates, Carthaginians, etc.
They were on an island. Where would they run to?.....................
PRETTY FANCY ART WORK.
Before they inflated the “silver” money with copper.
In 1000 years from now, archeologists are going to find an old computer server buried in a basement in the area once known as Washington DC (and they’ll be able to access the contents with their advanced AI software) that says “XYZ had $100,000,000,000,000 CBDC Kamala-Dollars in their account”
and they will be completely baffled by their discovery.
Plus the dusting cloth that Hillary used.
They didn’t walk to get there in the first place. They had boats.
Yup, hence I didn’t use my usual graphic boilerplate so obverse and reverse could be side by side. :^)
Looks like an early version of milled edges to stop people from shaving off the silver or gold around the edges.
Those types of outline were right in the stamp used to craft each coin, so they’re not necessarily perfectly centered. :^)
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