Ancient gold coins, which were unearthed near Sathyamangalam were handed over to the district officials in Erode on Sunday.
Posted on 07/25/2010 6:33:27 PM PDT by Palter
The coins, each weighing 400 milligrams, have markings in Urdu
Ancient gold coins were unearthed at Kottamalam village near Kadambur block in Sathyamangalam taluk on Sunday.
A villager stumbled upon an earthen pot containing the coins numbering 744 when he was cleaning his piece of land along with wife and two grand daughters near his house. It was said that the people in the village shared the treasure.
On hearing the information, Village Administrative Officer alerted the Sathyamangalam Tahsildar.
Along with a team of police personnel, the revenue officials rushed to the village and took possession of the coins, each weighed around 400 milligrams.
The coins, which had markings in Urdu, had been handed over to District Collector R. Sudalaikannan. The officials said that the coins would be sent to archaeologists in Chennai to ascertain their origin.
Ancient gold coins, which were unearthed near Sathyamangalam were handed over to the district officials in Erode on Sunday.
Dam, ping.
Has Anthony Wiener demanded an investigation yet?
Dam, a 100% tax on the coins. The Indian revenuers must have taken lessons from Stalin, Mao, and Obama.
Some things transcend countries and cultures.
Yeah...ummm...we’re gonna have to go ahead and ask you to fill out a form 1099 for those gold coins...sorry, it says so in the health care bill. What’s that? This was in India? Doesn’t matter. The health care bill says you have to fill out a form 1099 for any gold coins bought or sold in the U.S. or as a result of an ancient discovery in India. It sucks I know.
WOW! Thanks for posting.
Note.
You mean: Dem, ping.
When I was in the Army in Germany, there was a group of Brothers from Abbey Gruessau, who had been displaced by the Nazis and then the Russians and were in residence at the disused Catholic cathedral in Bad Wimpfen. In digging for restoration and gardening they had unearthed a several small caches of Roman Coins, which collectively were a rather large cache. (The site, on the Neckar River had been the eastern frontier of the Roman Empire in the Third Century).
The chaplain to the brothers was our Catholic chaplain and he kept the coins rather casually in a drawer in his desk, which he showed me. I really wished he hadn’t shown or told me about it, because God knows who else must have known. I have no idea what the local authoritues knew or thought of the situation.
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Thanks Palter.The coins, which had markings in Urdu, had been handed over to District Collector R. Sudalaikannan.To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. |
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Democracy = democrats stealing all the GOLD....
Those are some MIGHTY SMALL GOLD COINS.
Damn, must be the Indian division of the IRS.
112 coins per ounce by their figures. About 6.64 ounces total. Not a King’s ransom but still a nice windfall ... if the government didn’t steal them.
"Now I'm really pissed!"
Just another illustration of why:
When you find a treasure, just shut up about it, and keep it hidden away or sell it secretly.
India Bump :-)
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