I don't think I would refer to 17 coins as a 'hoard.'
1 posted on
06/04/2005 11:39:55 AM PDT by
blam
To: SunkenCiv
2 posted on
06/04/2005 11:41:08 AM PDT by
blam
To: blam
"Hoard" is Celtic for "pocket change".
3 posted on
06/04/2005 11:46:52 AM PDT by
gundog
To: nw_arizona_granny; SandRat
Are these the coins from the stories you mentioned?
5 posted on
06/04/2005 11:54:29 AM PDT by
Calpernia
(Breederville.com)
To: blam
>>>>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.
6 posted on
06/04/2005 11:55:33 AM PDT by
Calpernia
(Breederville.com)
To: blam
7 posted on
06/04/2005 11:55:35 AM PDT by
JAWs
To: blam
A Mongol hoard of this size couldn't have done any more than terrorize a local bar.
To: blam
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.
9 posted on
06/04/2005 11:56:49 AM PDT by
JAWs
To: blam
I don't think I would refer to 17 coins as a 'hoard.'Why not?
hoard 
( P ) Pronunciation Key (hôrd, h
rd)
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.
- To accumulate a hoard of.
- To keep hidden or private.
Perhaps you were thinking of horde?
10 posted on
06/04/2005 11:57:26 AM PDT by
raybbr
To: blam
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?
14 posted on
06/04/2005 12:29:55 PM PDT by
muawiyah
(q)
To: blam
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.
17 posted on
06/04/2005 12:45:11 PM PDT by
KC_for_Freedom
(Sailing the highways of America, and loving it.)
To: blam
How many Euros make a hoard?
18 posted on
06/04/2005 1:35:09 PM PDT by
LRS
To: blam
Odd as it sounds, it's considered a hoard because it's a bunch of ancient coins.
19 posted on
06/04/2005 3:19:55 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
("...nope, my sister hoard half of it.")
To: blam
A gal takes a big bag of quarters up to the bank teller to cash in. The teller says, "Did you hoard all these quarters?" The gal says, "No, my sister whored half of them."
22 posted on
06/04/2005 8:07:54 PM PDT by
fish hawk
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24 posted on
06/05/2005 8:38:29 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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