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Message:: [QUOTE="Volodya, post: 2421332, member: 19615"]There probably IS such a hoard, in the narrow and misleading sense that some telemarketer acquired a group of cheap Imperial denarii, most or all of which were indeed found together. The telemarketers need quite a lot of coins; it's patently more efficient for them to look for groups like that than to tediously obtain coins one at a time. This "hoard" won't have been recorded or studied though; it will have had all the obvious rarities and better quality pieces removed for sale elsewhere; it may have been broken up into smaller, uniform parcels containing maybe 100 coins each... and it will have no connection at all with the Colosseum. That might meet some "technical" definition of "hoard"--maybe even a legal definition if that ever became necessary--but it's a hoard from which all numismatic and scholarly interest and value has been systematically removed.[/QUOTE]