Posted on 08/30/2006 10:29:12 AM PDT by blam
Ancient gold coins found in Kyrgyz mountain lake
16:34 | 30/ 08/ 2006
BISHKEK, August 30 (RIA Novosti) - Possibly the world's most ancient gold coin has been discovered in a high mountain lake in Kyrgyzstan, the chief of an archeological expedition said Wednesday.
Academic Vladimir Ploskikh said an expedition from the Kyrgyz-Russian Slavic University found a 70-gram octagonal gold artifact on the northern side of Lake Issuk-Kul.
"This is probably the earliest form of metal money found in Central Asia, and may have served as an archetype for later gold coins," he said. "If this [hypothesis] is confirmed, the find will have a unique worldwide historical and cultural significance as a prototype for gold money."
The archeologists also recovered from the lake bronze daggers, sickles and hatchets, as well as household implements and jewelry dating back to approximately 1,000 BC.
Ploskikh said the finds could mark a "new page in history."
I think the PBClub is nutz. If they took their dip later in the season, they'd be really nutz. Sixty degrees is way too cold for my delicate self.
Nope, the coat wasn't all that nice, but the buttons were fantastic. I always thought they looked like they belonged on a much more expensive coat. - I wonder how I might go about reclaiming these "buttons"?
cool arrowheads.
If they're in bad shape you can probably get one for $500 or so.
To get one that's like the picture could run you as much as $5000.
Anyone interested in collecting ancient coins should spend a couple hundred dollars on coin books first. It will save you a lot of money and headaches.
I just wanted to reclaim my coat buttons. I can't afford to buy anything.
LOL!
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