Posted on 07/13/2022 8:17:45 AM PDT by Red Badger
Experts believe that the "exceptional" treasure trove could lead to more discoveries in the area.
The front and back of a gold coin from the ancient Roman empire. The front shows Augustus Caesar and the back shows his grandson on a horse.
One of the gold coins from the Roman empire found in the English countryside. Augustus Caesar is featured on the front, and his grandson Gaius on horseback is depicted on the back. (Image credit: Two of the 11 gold coins from the Roman empire found in the English countryside. Photo by Adrian Marsden) A cache of gold coins found buried on farmland in the United Kingdom has caught the attention of coin experts, who have linked the treasure trove to the Roman Empire.
So far, metal detectorists have discovered 11 coins on a remote stretch of cultivated field located in Norfolk, a rural county near England's eastern coast, and experts remain hopeful that more could be unearthed in the future.
Damon and Denise Pye, a pair of local metal detectorists, found the first of several gold coins in 2017, after local farmers finished plowing the soil at the end of the harvest season, which made the land prime for exploration. The haul has been dubbed "The Broads Hoard" by local numismatists (coin specialists and collectors), for its geographic location near The Broads, a network of rivers and lakes that run through the English countryside.
"The coins were found scattered around in the plow soil, which has been churned up year after year, causing the soil to be turned over constantly and led to them eventually coming to the surface," said Adrian Marsden, a numismatist at Norfolk County Council who specializes in ancient Roman coins.
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PinGGG!.......................
The fronts and backs of six of the 11 gold coins from the Roman Empire found in the English countryside. (Image credit: Adrian Marsden )
Hey! I plow up a LOT of land around here. How come I never find these Roman coins in MY fields?
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Render onto Caesar that which is Caesars’. My last name is Caesar.
Absolutely LOVED the series, ‘Detectorists.’ Wish it could’ve gone on forever. :)
The final scene was SO well played! ;)
When I was a kid in Mississippi, I used to look for arrowheads in freshly plowed fields especially right after a rain! They are worth $ nowadays!....................
11 coins is a “hoard”?
Inflation isn’t that bad is it?
Whenever I see one of these stories about a cache of coins turning up after 1500, 1800, 2000 years, whatever, I wonder, “How did that happen?” Anyone have a sense of the conventional wisdom on the topic? Miser buries their hoard and then dies before telling anyone where to find? Something like that?
The Detectorists is a great and funny British miniseries.
How could the Romans be so good at engraving but so bad at punching out the coins?
11 ‘ounces’ of gold = about $20,000, so yeah, it’s a ‘hoard’...............
Then and now, 11 gold coins is real money.
Yes, arrowheads galore after turning the earth behind a tractor!
Maybe the size has something to do with it. They didn’t have magnifying glasses yet..................
The numismatic value of newly discovered Roman coins will be many times the melt value.
To melt these for their bullion value would be criminally stupid.
I thought old Roman coins were rather common..................
By the time Biden is done , they will be “worth” over $40,000.
Those coins are over 2 cm, close to one inch diameter. Some of them were punched 20% off-center.
When I was a kid in Virginia, other kids found Civil War bullets in the plowed earth. There was one kid who had a whole cigar box full of them, he showed me.
They looked like weathered lumps of lead. Some of them had a recognizable shape; when I later learned what a Minie ball was, I knew that's what these were.
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