Castle hoard found...

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  1. Cascade

    Cascade CAC Variety Nerd

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  3. ominus1

    ominus1 Well-Known Member

    kool story, thanks for sharing:)..
     
  4. dadams

    dadams Well-Known Member

    Nice story. I'll bet the curators are having great fun rummaging.
     
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  5. chrsmat71

    chrsmat71 I LIKE TURTLES!

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  6. Cascade

    Cascade CAC Variety Nerd

    Thought you dudes would dig it. Not your average hoard find!
     
  7. LaCointessa

    LaCointessa Well-Known Member

    Wow! Real hoarders.
     
  8. Christopher290

    Christopher290 Active Member

    Wow... thanks for sharing
     
  9. Bing

    Bing Illegitimi non carborundum Supporter

    An interesting story
     
  10. IdesOfMarch01

    IdesOfMarch01 Well-Known Member

    Who writes a story about a hoard of coins being discovered, and then fails to include even one picture of the hoard itself?

    Apparently, The Guardian does. Isn't one of the first principles of journalism that "A picture is worth a thousand words?" This story can best be described as numismaticus interruptus...
     
  11. Cascade

    Cascade CAC Variety Nerd

    Because 99% of the readers wouldn't care about that. To them it's just a thrill of finding something cool and valuable story. It could be 6th century beanie babies for all they care.
     
  12. IdesOfMarch01

    IdesOfMarch01 Well-Known Member

    I don't agree with this at all. To write a story about a coin hoard and not even include a picture of the coins themselves is simply incompetent journalism.
     
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  13. Cascade

    Cascade CAC Variety Nerd

    Well you, and the rest of us here, are obviously in the 1%.
     
  14. coinsareus10

    coinsareus10 Well-Known Member

    Useless story without pictures.
     
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  15. Alegandron

    Alegandron "ΤΩΙ ΚΡΑΤΙΣΤΩΙ..." ΜΕΓΑΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ, June 323 BCE

    I WANT to be in the 1%. That is where the LEADERS are.
     
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  16. Bing

    Bing Illegitimi non carborundum Supporter

    If we are all in the 1%, then are we not the followers?
     
  17. dougsmit

    dougsmit Member

    Many sensationalist hoard report stories include photos that also cause us to say 'incompetent journalism'. We have seen the use of stock photos that do not show coins from the hoard or even similar types. We have seen rarity and value estimates completely out of step with the images used. Perhaps they have learned from past missteps and decided not to use photos that they don't understand???

    In this case we have good photos from the Daily Mail piece which bring up a really good question. They showed a pile of nice mid-grade coins (the kind I would like to collect) and a few paper labels with really bare bones ID's. What I want to know is whether anyone recorded which label went with which coin. Most can be identified to some degree from the photo. I see the one Greek of Aegina in the pile. Can you find the Chinese coin? Is there possibly a fake or two? What is it that drives people to display such things in a pile?
     
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  18. Deacon Ray

    Deacon Ray Artist & Historian Supporter

    That is an interesting story, @Cascade ! And welcome to the Ancients Forum also—as you've demonstrated—you don't have to be an ancients collector to be a valuable contributor to the Ancients Forum. Please note that I am not assuming that you don't collect ancients—you may have more of them than I do. Whatever the case—welcome!
     
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  19. Cascade

    Cascade CAC Variety Nerd

    Thanks. Not too much into ancients though. You need to have a base knowledge in ancient Roman politics for it to be fun imo. Something I lack although I have seen gladiator and the 1960s Caligula if that counts. A member here did give me a silver ancient which was pretty cool of him on the promise that if I do start collecting them I buy a few from him. Can't remember the members name but it hasn't happened yet anyway. You guys do seem like a nice bunch though, even if you do collect monopoly money :p
     
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  20. Deacon Ray

    Deacon Ray Artist & Historian Supporter

    Seeing Caligula, Gladiator and don't forget Ben Hur qualify you as perhaps not an expert but certainly an enthusiast. True you can't spend the coins we collect but we can give you the names of some great dealers who sell absolutely authentic certifiable and guaranteed ancient coins and you'd be surprised at the modest prices. You can learn as you go along. There is nothing like holding ancient history in the palm of your hand! You're also correct that we are the friendliest coin forum you'll ever find ;)
     
  21. red_spork

    red_spork Triumvir monetalis

    I knew absolutely nothing about ancient history when I started collecting 3.5 years ago. Within a year I was pretty comfortable with the basic outline of Roman history, more than enough to really enjoy collecting and learning even more about it. If you are interested at all in learning about the history even if you don't particularly desire to collect the coins I really recommend checking out Mike Duncan's "The History of Rome" podcast which covers the founding of Rome to Odoacer. I listened every day on the way to and from work and here and there in my free time and completed it over a few months time.
     
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