[SunkenCiv]

CNN / Accuweather

[frank ballenger]

Darn it. I put a couple of those coins into a candy bar machine yesterday. Ironically a Payday. And a Hershey with almonds. 🍫

[PGR88]

I’ve looked at purchasing some Roman aureus (gold coins) - just because I’d like to have something 2000 years and think about the history it has seen and hands it has passed through.

they aren’t cheap!

[Teacher317]

This is AccuWeather news?

[ComputerGuy]

Awesome!

[af_vet_1981]

I misread this title assuming it was a collection of US coins and wondering about which collection. European and other non-US coins might bring more from non-US collectors.

[poconopundit]

From the story...

"The collectors, feeling the imminent threat of the Nazi regime, carefully packed the 17th century coins into cigar boxes that were then transferred into aluminum boxes and buried underground -- where they remained for five decades."

Ha!  A perfect story match for a FReeper called SunkenCiv:-) 

Now where the heck did I put that metal detector?!

[OldHarbor]

“Boys, you just don’t find them” , a favorite phrase of a local auctioneer when he was hyping something said to be rare or hard to find.

Probably true in this case, very rare items.

[Hot Tabasco]

Accuweather? No wonder they can’t predict tomorrow’s weather forecast accurately, they’re too focused on coins and crap.

[Captain Peter Blood]

My guess is that they were a Jewish couple and they buried the coins somewhere, probably in what become East Germany. The family probably had to wait decades until German Reunification before they could get the coins back. That would make sense. The couple probably would not have been able to get the coins out of Germany at the time. Of course the question is did that couple make it out of Germany for did they end up in a concentration camp, regardless a remarkable story to tell.