Archaeologists Find Hoard Of Celtic Coins

Yahoo ^ | 6-3-2005

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Archaeologists Find Hoard of Celtic Coins

Fri Jun 3,10:43 AM ET

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - Archaeologists have uncovered 17 ancient Celtic coins in a field in the south of the Netherlands, the first hoard of such coins found in the country.

Amsterdam's Free University excavated the site in April and will display the coins, which are made of silver and mixed with copper and gold, in the Limburgs Museum in the city of Venlo on Saturday.

They are estimated to date from 20-50 B.C., shortly after Julius Caesar began the Roman conquest of the region.

Leaders of local Germanic tribes "probably used these coins to reward their followers for loyalty," researchers said.

Similar finds have been made in neighboring Belgium and Germany.

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I don't think I would refer to 17 coins as a 'hoard.'

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GGG Ping.

[gundog]

"Hoard" is Celtic for "pocket change".

[ASA Vet]

Or maybe what happens to Chicken Ranch patrons?

[Calpernia]

Are these the coins from the stories you mentioned?

[Calpernia]

>>>>They are estimated to date from 20-50 B.C., shortly after Julius Caesar began the Roman conquest of the region.

I, Calpernia, wife of Caesar, am here to reclaim my coins.

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[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

A Mongol hoard of this size couldn't have done any more than terrorize a local bar.

[JAWs]

I don't think I would refer to 17 coins as a 'hoard.'

Well, it may have been a lot of money in those days. 17 C-notes today is my idea of a hoard.

[raybbr]

I don't think I would refer to 17 coins as a 'hoard.'

Why not?

hoard    ( P )  Pronunciation Key  (hôrd, hrd)
n.

A hidden fund or supply stored for future use; a cache.

v. hoard·ed, hoard·ing, hoards
v. intr.

To gather or accumulate a hoard.

v. tr.

1. To accumulate a hoard of.
2. To keep hidden or private.

Perhaps you were thinking of horde?

[Walkingfeather]

LOL

[Drammach]

Thanks...

You just pretty much killed this thread for anyone with dial-up..

[nw_arizona_granny]

A lost treasure, found, turns out to be what is found....LOL

In America, you are more likely to find Spanish Doubloons.

In the west you look for a hidden gold cache.

If you were working a mining claim or panning a creek, then
you hid the days find.

That is where the "Lost Kettle Gold" type stories come from.

They say gold is where you find it.

[muawiyah]

By the standards of the time 17 coins was probably quite a fortune.

Wonder what archaeologists 50,000 years from now are going to think when they dig up this neighborhood.

Virtually everyone has two or three coffee cans filled with pennies.

Will they be persuaded that copper was of inestimible value?

[Calpernia]

A fun find either way!

Is aztac gold also called Doubloons?

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Wonder what archaeologists 50,000 years from now are going to think when they dig up this neighborhood.

Many, many years ago Reader's Digest had a article called (IIRC) "The Excavation of a 20th Century Hotel"

The best part was the conclusions they drew about the bathroom.

[KC_for_Freedom]

They are estimated to date from 20-50 B.C

Dates were stamped in the date field. (20 BC) Easy to tell when they were coined.

[LRS]

How many Euros make a hoard?

[SunkenCiv]

Odd as it sounds, it's considered a hoard because it's a bunch of ancient coins.

[nw_arizona_granny]

LOL...Aztec gold is known as Aztec gold.

Doubloons are similar to the Celtic coins, a minted coin.

Most are rather crude. I can't give you the dates, but way
back, always figured that if i found one, the date would
not matter.

There is a an island on the Texas coast, Padre Island, I think, they still find them on the beach there. From old ship wrecks, as I recall.

My area is the desert, so haven't looked for many doubloons.

But you never know, I could find one, as the Spaniards went through here, on several trips, including the "Search for Cibola" or the golden cities that the Indians bragged about.

My valley is Golden Valley, not for gold, but for the little
golden flower that blooms some years and makes us all sick.

You can look out and see the whole valley 18 miles of it, is a golden color.

You can still buy rounds today of silver, a one ounce silver
coin, usually about the size of the old silver dollar, that will have some saying on it.

In the past I saw them in the coin newspapers, Linn's being one.