In mint condition! Millions of pounds-worth of pristine 5th-century gold coins are found buried [tr]

UK Daily Mail ^ | September 9, 2018 | Charlie Moore

[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.

[Jumper]

Yea, I have four paper routes in 69-71, and some customers paid me with coins for my collection. Four fifteen am f ok r Dayton Journal Herald, then nc after school the Dayton Daily News and then 94 copies of the mega Sunday DDN. Tuesdays and Wednesdays the Shopping News for 300 a penny each. Thursday was the Business Weekly. Dad “made” me share the Shopping News with my two sisters... I was pulling in $32-36 s week in 7-8th grades whileUS Servicemen were dying in Nam for $62 a month.

[Does so]

When the Hunt Silver spike came...

I spent about $3000 on some.

...sigh... :(

[hanamizu]

Silver Dollars were still in circulation in Nevada and Idaho in the 50s. When I was little I remember my dad taking me into a bar in Idaho. The long bar had 100s of silver dollars embedded in it. Not likely there any more.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

The Million Dollar Cowboy Bar in Jackson, Wyoming is still open after 81 years. The bar is filled with embedded silver dollars. My dad took us in there in the early 60s. We took a family trip there six years ago and our kids loved the place! Funny, I don't recall looking for the silver dollar bar. There is also the Wort Hotel in Jackson with 2,032 silver dollars:

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Here is the bar in the Million Dollar Cowboy Bar...

[newfreep]

I had a morning Dayton Journal Herald route in East Dayton, too...and still recall those 4am mornings in my 5th thru 8th grades using “foot power”.

My route was just east of Wayne/Wyoming near Xenia, Fillmore, Pierce Streets.

As a Freshman at Stivers, I got a morning route at Miami Valley Hospital - just a tad warmer on those cold winter mornings. And breakfast with the doctors and nurses in the cafeteria. Nurses........

Later at Co-op, a job at Delco/GM in mail room during my Junior & Senior years.

Seems I’ve worked since I was 9 or 10.

[Vermont Lt]

I have sympathy for the construction workers. You know the second they saw that pot they knew the day’s work was shot. Then when it broke open, they knew the month was shot.

And they probably got nothing for their efforts.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

I think I see a coin of FLAVIVS LIBIVS SEVERVS SERPENTIVS AVGVSTVS ruler of the Western Empire from 461-165 AD.

[hanamizu]

Same idea as the Million Dollar Cowboy Bar—the dollars were inlaid in a black bar. But I recall it being straight, not curved, and the dollars weren’t in straight rows, but I remember being quite impressed. This was in the early 50s, can’t remember the name of the town, but I’m pretty sure it was in Idaho. Not nearly as big the Cowboy Bar.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Like you, I was really impressed and wide-eyed when Dad took me in to see the bar. In the 50s, a silver dollar was worth about $20 of today’s crappy money, so a big pile of Morgans was really something.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks BenLurkin and Red Badger, I missed your pings!

[21twelve]

I see signs for one of those bars in Idaho along I-90. I see that there is one in Leadore, ID, and another in Haugen, MT which is on I-90 in western Montana.

Back in the day spent lots of time in Jackson, and some of it at the Million Dollar Cowboy Bar.

Sad about Jackson Hole nowadays - all the millionaires are gone.
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The billionaires chased them all away.

[wardaddy]

At first I thought
Millions of pounds of coins....that’s a lot...lol

43 pounds of quarters is 1000 bucks

A million pounds of quarters 23.25 million dollars worth

[bert]

I’ll go with he was hiding the gold from his wife or ex wife who killed him from vindictive spite

[oldvirginian]

“Also, whatever happened to “finders, keepers?”

The government declared perpetual DIBS on anything of value.
Like the lottery, which the government makes millions on then taxes the hell out of any winnings some schlub gets.

[DCBryan1]

Does the finder get anything?Taxes....lots of taxes. That's why you keep your mouth shut and mail in one or 2 of those a month to PCGS and NGC and then sell them Slowly on Ebay with 0 capital gains.

[zeugma]

This has been a weird year for me with my small change. After going through a long dry spell of not finding anything particularly interesting, over a span of about 2 months, I found a silver quarter, dime and nickel (i.e. wartime silver nickel)

I always look at my change. Never know what you'll find. I was at a convenience store a few years ago, and the guy had a bunch of .50 cent pieces in the drawer. I told him I'd take them all. Ended up being 2 90% silvers, and an entire roll of 40%. That was a great find.

[wildbill]

A lot of hoards that are found today, buried for centuries, are probably the result of a murder of the owners.

Which only proves that you should spend most all your money is lavish living, women, whisky, and travel. You can waste the rest.