Treasure

[indago]

From The Associated Press 3 March 2016:
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From a crumpled paper bag in a dilapidated house came a baseball-card find of a lifetime. ...Card experts in Southern California said Wednesday that they have verified the legitimacy — and seven-figure total value — of seven identical Ty Cobb cards from the printing period of 1909 to 1911. Before the recent find, there were only about 15 known to still exist.
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[indago]

From The Associated Press 14 March 2016:
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Israel's Antiquities Authority says a hiker has found a rare, nearly 2,000-year-old gold coin.

The authority said Monday that the ancient coin appears to be only the second of its kind to have been found. It said London's British Museum possesses the other coin.

The coin, from the year A.D. 107, bears the image of Augustus, the first emperor of the Roman Empire. It was minted as part of a series of coins honoring Roman rulers.
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article (http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_ISRAEL_RARE_COIN?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2016-03-14-07-42-11)

[indago]

Journalist Ciaran Giles wrote for The Associated Press 29 April 2016:
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Workers laying pipes in a southern Spanish park have unearthed a 600-kilogram (1,300-pound) trove of Roman coins in what culture officials say is a unique historic discovery. The Seville Archaeological Museum said the construction workers came across 19 amphoras containing thousands of unused bronze and silver-coated coins dating from the end of the fourth century.
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[NightTrain]

Journalist Ciaran Giles wrote for The Associated Press 29 April 2016:
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Workers laying pipes in a southern Spanish park have unearthed a 600-kilogram (1,300-pound) trove of Roman coins in what culture officials say is a unique historic discovery. The Seville Archaeological Museum said the construction workers came across 19 amphoras containing thousands of unused bronze and silver-coated coins dating from the end of the fourth century.
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article (http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_SPAIN_ROMAN_TROVE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2016-04-29-07-19-56)

This kind of stuff is fascinating. I always wonder what the circumstances were to prompt the people to bury such vast quantities of money - obviously things were pretty dire to do that.

And the fact that the money was never retrieved means that whoever buried it was wise to do so. So these coins were minted at the end of the 4th Century and were not yet distributed...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Spain

The first Germanic tribes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_peoples) to invade Hispania arrived in the 5th century, as the Roman Empire decayed (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_of_the_Roman_Empire).[11] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Spain#cite_note-11) The Visigoths (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visigoths), Suebi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suebi), Vandals (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vandals) and Alans (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alans) arrived in Spain by crossing the Pyrenees mountain range, leading to the establishment of the Suebi Kingdom (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suebi#Kingdom_in_Gallaecia) in Gallaecia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallaecia), in the northwest, the Vandal Kingdom (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vandals#In_Iberia) of Vandalusia (Andalusia), and the Visigothic Kingdom (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visigoths#Kingdom_of_Toledo) in Toledo. The Romanized (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_(cultural)) Visigoths entered Hispania in 415. After the conversion of their monarchy to Roman Catholicism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholicism) and after conquering the disordered Suebic territories in the northwest and Byzantine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Empire) territories in the southeast, the Visigothic Kingdom eventually encompassed a great part of the Iberian Peninsula.[9] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Spain#cite_note-country-9)[12] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Spain#cite_note-12)
As the Roman Empire (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Empire) declined, Germanic tribes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_tribes) invaded the former empire. Some were foederati (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foederati), tribes enlisted to serve in Roman armies, and given land within the empire as payment, while others, such as the Vandals (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vandals), took advantage of the empire's weakening defenses to seek plunder within its borders. Those tribes that survived took over existing Roman institutions, and created successor-kingdoms to the Romans in various parts of Europe.Iberia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iberian_Peninsula) was taken over by the Visigoths (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visigoths) after 410.[13] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Spain#cite_note-13)
At the same time, there was a process of "Romanization" of the Germanic and Hunnic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunnic) tribes settled on both sides of the limes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limes) (the fortified frontier of the Empire along the Rhine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhine) and Danube (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danube) rivers). The Visigoths, for example, were converted to Arian Christianity (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arianism) around 360, even before they were pushed into imperial territory by the expansion of the Huns (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huns).[14] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Spain#cite_note-marsh-14)
In the winter of 406, taking advantage of the frozen Rhine, refugees from (Germanic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_tribes)) Vandals (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vandals) and Sueves (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sueves), and the (Sarmatian (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarmatian)) Alans (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alans), fleeing the advancing Huns, invaded the empire in force. Three years later they crossed the Pyrenees (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrenees) into Iberia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iberian_Peninsula) and divided the Western parts, roughly corresponding to modern Portugal and western Spain as far as Madrid (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madrid), between them.[15] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Spain#cite_note-Marsh-15)
The Visigoths, having sacked Rome two years earlier, arrived in the region in 412, founding the Visigothic kingdom of Toulouse (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toulouse) (in the south of modern France) and gradually expanded their influence into the Iberian peninsula at the expense of the Vandals and Alans, who moved on into North Africa without leaving much permanent mark on Hispanic culture. The Visigothic Kingdom (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visigoths#Visigothic_kingdom_in_Hispania) shifted its capital to Toledo (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toledo,_Spain) and reached a high point during the reign of Leovigild (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leovigild).

[indago]

This kind of stuff is fascinating.


Then you would really like the story of Boudica, Warrior Queen of the Celts, who was humiliated and raped by one of the occupying Roman authority. She organized the Celts into a fighting unit of thousands and attacked the Roman establishments and decimated them.

Check this out if you have cable...

On Demand > TV Shows > By Network > History > Specials > Queen Boudica

[Elessar]

This kind of stuff is fascinating. I always wonder what the circumstances were to prompt the people to bury such vast quantities of money - obviously things were pretty dire to do that.



Could be there was no other way to protect them.

I dunno! Were there even banks there in the 4th Century?