[blam]

GGG Ping.

[R. Scott]

"We are not in this for the money. Our club motto is 'pleasure not profit'.

It would be a thrill – but the money will be pretty good too. Watch Ebay shortly if the State can’t buy the hoard.

[DManA]

silver and copper alloy

Inflation was invented in the iron age. Cool.

[Graymatter]

EBAY.

[BenLurkin]

Very Cool.

(I like coins)

[vetvetdoug]

I'd go EBAY right off the bat and give one to the museum.

[Graybeard58]

Ping

[KosmicKitty]

Now, available for a limited time to the serious collector who can appreciate the true value of these rare coins.

(Which escaped melt-down during the great depression and were moved from the twin towers only days before the tragic attack on 9/11)

Okay, enough satire, the find really is cool!

[Calpernia]

Wow, cool!

Ping

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam.

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[SunkenCiv]

Celtic coins (dealer, four examples):
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~travis1/celticcoins.htm

[Rocky]

I sure enjoy your posts. Thanks.

[SunkenCiv]

Here's another hoard find, although I think we've had a topic about it.

Iron Age coins go on display
by SUE SKINNER
October 14, 2005

The annual summer excavation of a Saxon burial ground in the valley of the Heacham River has also uncovered evidence of an earlier, Iron Age settlement. The hoard of 32 Gallo-Belgic E staters has been described as the most significant find since the Sedgeford Historical and Archaeological Research Project (Sharp) began in 1996. Twenty of the coins, depicting a stylised horse on one side, were hidden inside the bone. They are believed to have been made by the Ambiani tribe of Gaul in northern France 2000 years ago, and there are two main theories about why they were buried. One is that the owner, perhaps a mercenary who had been fighting the Romans in Gaul, had been paid in gold staters and decided to give a votive offering to the gods for his safe passage home. Alternatively, he may have decided that his precious coins were too valuable to carry around, so hid them in the bone and buried them to be retrieved later. But he was then either killed or forgot where they were.