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<p>[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 5409370, member: 110350"]See <a href="https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/01/archaeologists-discover-medieval-treasure-hoard-in-central-hungary/136764" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/01/archaeologists-discover-medieval-treasure-hoard-in-central-hungary/136764" rel="nofollow">https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/01/archaeologists-discover-medieval-treasure-hoard-in-central-hungary/136764</a></p><p><br /></p><p>According to the article, which includes a photo showing several piles of green coins -- and calls the discovery a "treasure hoard," of course -- there are "nearly 7,000 silver coins, and 4 gold coins," both late medieval and Roman. The earliest coin is from Lucius Verus, and the medieval coins seem all to have been issued prior to 1526, the year of the defeat at the Battle of Mohacs. If, as the article suggests, the coins were buried in response to the advancing Ottomans, does that indicate that Roman coins may have been circulating in late medieval Hungary?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 5409370, member: 110350"]See [URL]https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/01/archaeologists-discover-medieval-treasure-hoard-in-central-hungary/136764[/URL] According to the article, which includes a photo showing several piles of green coins -- and calls the discovery a "treasure hoard," of course -- there are "nearly 7,000 silver coins, and 4 gold coins," both late medieval and Roman. The earliest coin is from Lucius Verus, and the medieval coins seem all to have been issued prior to 1526, the year of the defeat at the Battle of Mohacs. If, as the article suggests, the coins were buried in response to the advancing Ottomans, does that indicate that Roman coins may have been circulating in late medieval Hungary?[/QUOTE]
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