Posted on 09/10/2018 6:19:18 AM PDT by C19fan
A stash of fifth-century gold coins worth millions has been found buried in a pot under an Italian theatre.
Builders demolishing the former Cressoni theatre in Como were stunned to discover the cache last Wednesday.
The Roman coins will be examined and dated before ending up in a museum, officials said.
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If I found them I wouldn’t give them up so some museum could put them on display. That money could have been a big help to a construction worker and his family.
Never happen. The .gov will take it all away.
Does anyone somehow not thing the Government with take a majority of these coins.
Maybe a Thank You.
I had 2 early 192? -193? Gold Coins IIRC 1 was a $1.00 & the other a $5.00 Face Value that was given to Mom from Her Father when the .gov recalled All Gold back in 1933-39 by Roosevelt’s EO. I sold them for $100.00 each at a Coin Shop about 20 years ago.
They had a small note with them from My Grampa that told Mom to “Never trust the Corrupt Government”
I’m still kicking Myself in the A$$...
Gold coins nearly always look good. Gold doesn’t really deteriorate. From a few that I can read the coins look to be from a late stage of the Roman Empire—the portraits have very little of the artistic quality of the earlier Empire. I see at least one inscription that begins with ‘DN’ which is short for Our Lord which again is used later in the Empire. One post speculates that they were buried during a barbarian invasion which the owner didn’t survive, which seems likely to me. The theater just happened to be built over a thousand years later over the site.
Gold doesn’t tarnish.
Also, whatever happened to “finders, keepers?”
When I was a kid in the 50s visiting my grandparents in Idaho, my grandfather would pull Morgan silver dollars out of my ears. He always gave them to me after “finding”them there. Unfortunately, I spent them all in my teens. Ouch.
In God we Trust, all others pay ... um, what was the question again?
I know the feeling!
As an old newsboy, I got started collecting coins from that. I have never stopped LOOKING at my change but with the change brought about by credit cards and the like, I have a lot less to look at these days. However I recently found a 1942 Lincoln Wheat but found another that really shocked me from just the past month. A 1963 90% silver quarter!!! How it stayed in circulation I will never know unless someone's collection got broken into! At current bullion pricing, this quarter is just over $2.55 value.
Shovel, pocket and shut up...
The theatre, which was inaugurated in 1870 and later became a cinema before closing in 1997, was due to be demolished to allow the construction of a luxury residence.
Yoink!
Every time there is a stash of old coins found I wonder what happened to the person who hid them and was not able to retrieve them.
They made money the old fashioned way...
they urn it
To hell with odes to Grecian urns
I’ll sing a song of sixpence a trill-ion times
to these
Talk about Cinema Paradiso!
Those look look Byzantine solidi. They should be able to date them by the kings portraits
My father started saving silver coins when Nixon went off the gold standard. When the Hunt Silver spike came, he cashed some of them in. He was very proud of himself, as he had a right to be.
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