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Posted on 11/10/2025 9:00:59 AM PST by SunkenCiv
Daiji World reports that workers restoring a Shiva temple near the Javvadu Hills in India’s southern state of Tamil Nadu discovered 103 gold coins dated to the Chola period, which spanned the ninth through the thirteenth centuries A.D. The coins had been neatly stacked in a pot and buried beneath the temple floor. The temple is thought to have been built during the reign of King Rajaraja Cholan III, between 1216 and 1246. Temple wealth flourished during the late Chola period, when gold-based trade networks were active across South India, according to researchers from the Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Department. Officials from this department are now collaborating with archaeologists to study the coins. To read more about the Chola Empire, go to "Tamil Royal Palace."
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103 ancient gold coins unearthed beneath Chola-era Shiva temple in Tamil Nadu
Daijiworld Media Network - Chennai | Tue, November 04 2025Daijiworld
[singing] hooray for Daijiworld...
Is that where I left it? Thank you so much.
HOORAY FOR BOLLYWOOD!..............
by the many loving arms of Vishnoo— they found my gold hoarde!
Indian elites and the middle classes simply don’t trust their currency. They accumulate physical gold every chance they get.
Have to wonder sometimes if people create fake old gold coins, say they found them, and make bank...
Gold Price
4,095.08+95.14+2.38%
12:20:54 PMMI Indication
I would melt those puppies down and buy a purple-flake Cadillac with spinners.
Oh no! Now I’m going to get a ton of junk mail...
Be glad this wasn’t found in Nigeria...
Hey, who wouldn’t?
I don’t know about coins, but I made my uncle a mold for a ball of gold weighing just a tiny fraction over one ounce long ago so he could barter with them.
He was hiding gold in plain sight as well, using bullet molds then a light coating of grey paint, followed by an even lighter spray of white to look like oxidation.
Kept them with his reloading supplies, they just looked exactly like lead cast shot.
🎶Diamond in the back, sunroof top.
Diggin’ the scene with a gangsta lean.🎵
And I would make a solid gold neck chain with any left over.
Workers reported 103 coins. I wonder how many they discovered.
Kept them with his reloading supplies, they just looked exactly like lead cast shot.
I wonder how much treasure is lost by such stratagems.
I am glad you know of your uncle’s. What if he should die?
Believe me, dad and I joked with him for years over it.
.45-70 was his favorite cast choice, some he even loaded. He primed them but never put powder in.
See, uncle Jerry liked his bourbon, so Sober Jerry knew Drunk Jerry well enough that if he was shooting squibs he knew he grabbed the wrong box. :-)
I recall some people shooting a few golden bullets when it was about $200-$400 an ounce.
An example of extravagant consumption.
Did you have any trouble with the mold?
Gold melts at more than three times the temp of lead.
No, I made it out of S7 if I recall, then had it heat treated to about 60Rc, been years ago. Cast just fine, I lapped it with diamond paste, cavities were a perfect mirror when I gave it to him.
Uncle Jerry knew his metals, he played with gold his whole life, never trusting banks but also knew he talked when he drank, so he wanted to hide it but still know its there.
“my uncle made gold bullets that looked real”
That may be a story your uncle told you to hide the fact he also made silver bullets to hunt wolfmen.
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