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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Drusus, post: 479460, member: 6370&quot;]These were posted on another forum and I thought I would pass them along as they are, IMO, very neat. Its interesting to see these coins as they were found:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>First one is a hoard of Greek coins found in two old jars:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://www.cachecoins.org/cache/greekcoinsinjar.jpeg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://www.cachecoins.org/cache/greekcoinsin jar.jpeg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Two Jars of Alexander the Great Tetradrachms, each Jar has around 500 coins, some of the coins would be:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Demetrios I Poliorketes Tetradrachm&nbsp; 1 coin</p><p>Antigonos II Gonatas&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; 1 coin</p><p>Lysimachos&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 2 coins</p><p>Seleukos I&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 3 coins Elephant type</p><p>Seleukos II&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; 7</p><p>the rest are all Alexander the Great coins.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Thanks to Salem Alshdaifat for posting these</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>here is another hoard found:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://www.cachecoins.org/cache/greekcoinsfoundinbag.jpeg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://www.cachecoins.org/cache/greekcoinsfoundinbag01.jpeg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Large hoard of Athenian silver tetradrachms buried in a sack. Fourty-six coins were removed separately but most of them were lifted in a concreted mass weighing 6,280 grams. About 400 Athenian tetradrachms in total recovered in Greece by excavators with the American School of Classical Studies[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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