Must've slipped beneath the seats...
Matt Foley?
Or perhaps they fell out of someone’s pocket while they were emptying the trash. As far as remaining in perfect condition - gold does not oxidize or otherwise corrode. When gold coins are recovered from wrecks they sometimes have coral or shellfish attached to them or accreting them together, but other than that they are generally unaffected by their environment.
Oh, so that’s where I lost them!
GGG ping
Did they find any rich, Corinthian leather?
Must've slipped beneath the seats...
“... hidden ahead of the French invasion, led by General Dupont which pillaged the city in July 1808.”
It is really interesting.
There was a lot of fierce fighting back and forth during the French occupation of the Peninsula.
That fight is one of the first on record of actual guerilla warfare as we understand it in modern terms. Spain, at that time, was a backward and very poorly governed place where banditry was typical and widely tolerated. In addition to this, during the French occupation, the peninsula was crawling with soldiers of both sides (French officers as well as lower ranks looted at will), deserters from both sides, the usual home grown-bandits, profiteers and actually anyone who wanted to capitalize on the chaos and disorder to steal or otherwise appropriate valuables.
Anyone who buries gold usually has come by it illicitly and I bet the coins were buried by a soldier or bandit who looted them and didn’t live to return for them.
A Carlos III escudo
Just in case the image fails above.
Cash for clunker program ?
Too Bad! My family emigrated from Spain to Sicily in 1488 so I guess it ain’t mine!
Perhaps the French made him dead?
or maybe not...
However he thinks the hiding place, next to the river, is a surprising one,
