You ain't lying, this is a big one compared to some of the other ancient greeks I own. 
Posted on 10/29/2025 8:53:17 PM PDT by Red Badger
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Not all governments steal.
Like the US government.
“We do not yet know exactly how many coins there are, but I believe it could be upward of 20,000.”
Dubious at best...
Some of the metal work on the jewelry and baubles is really impressive, tho.
He should have kept his mouth shut. He will get some compensation but will get low balled.
I was doing the same thing and you’ll guess what I found. The Napoleonic Crown Jewels! Buried right in my back yard!
All kidding aside, I’ve told this story before. When I was in the Army in Germany our Roman Catholic chaplain was a local German priest. He had spent the war in Dachau for opposition to Nazis. He had been and was again chaplain to the Brothers of Abbey Grussau, now dissolved. The entire membership was imprisoned in Dachau by the Nazis.
After the war, the Russians used the Abbey, which is now in Poland, as headquarters for a tank division. The chaplain met with the local American military governor, a General George S. Patton. He told me that he thought Patton was cultured and educated. There was a local disused Catholic cathedral in Bad Wimpfen, since that area in Schwabenland had gone Protestant after the Thirty Years War (1618-1648). He gave the Cathedral and grounds to the survivors of the Abbey.
The area had been occupied by the Romans and was the eastern edge of the old Roman Empire. There were still some scattered Roman ruins in Bad Wimpfen. While the brothers were gardening and maintaining the grounds, they kept finding hoards of Roman coins. Father Andreas simply tossed them in the center drawer of his heavy desk. He showed me his hoard of gold and silver coins, but I wished he hadn’t. I never told anyone about the hoard for 40 years. I never had designs on it, but I was afraid of what might happen if it was common knowledge. I was especially thinking about certain GIs I knew.
Abbey Grussau is no more. The last survivor is gone to his reward, the Cathedral, lovingly restored by U.S. Army engineers out of Heilbronn using Army equipment (with General Patton’s blessing) has been taken over by the local Baden-Wurtenburg Land government, for the people, doncha know.
The Swedish government will likely give him the current market value of the silver content.
13 lbs = 5896.7 grams = 189.58 Troy oz X 47.89 USD per oz = $9079.00
Not a bad ‘catch’ for a day of fishing.............
But did the fisherman find any worms?
Don’t make me post the “open a new bank account” joke again. 😊
Thanks, great info! It’s not rare to see ancient coins that are very small diameter, but yeah, the 20K does seem high.
🤔 What joke?................
A young woman entered a bank, went to the teller with a grocery bag filled with bills. “I’d like to open a savings account please.” The teller took one look inside the bag, and asked the manager to come over. He looked in, then asked the young woman to follow him to his office. They sat down there.
“Let’s get started. Any idea how much you have in here?”
“About $879,000.”
“Wow! This needs to be safe and secure in our bank, not in some old paper bag. Did you hoard all this money by yourself?”
“No, my sister hoard half of it.”
😁😂🤣😂😁🙄........................
You ain't lying, this is a big one compared to some of the other ancient greeks I own.
Wow.
Nicely preserved details!
Ooh, and btw, just read up on the Aetolian League. They were, uh, nimble in their political, uh, okay, they were a bunch of turncoats. 😆
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Aetolian-League
What is this - using CE instead of AD. Anno Domini has been used for years and has been universally accepted. I do not care of the venerable Association of Academic Arses has decided to use CE. Let them but I won’t fund them.
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