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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 5181337, member: 19463&quot;]Questions:&nbsp; There were over a thousand aurei found at Boscoreale but they were not catalogued before dispersal.&nbsp; We see many from Nero and Vespasian.&nbsp; Are any known for Domitian Caesar?&nbsp; What other aurei (Caligula?, Galba?) are recognized as being Boscoreale coins? </p><p><a href="https://www.google.com/search?sxsrf=ALeKk03aHN0YervHnu0WX36uBIqwyyBkfA:1607094631245&amp;source=univ&amp;tbm=isch&amp;q=louvre+boscoreale&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwi79fWEzrTtAhVLF1kFHZsjBKoQjJkEegQIAxAB&amp;biw=1120&amp;bih=571" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.google.com/search?sxsrf=ALeKk03aHN0YervHnu0WX36uBIqwyyBkfA:1607094631245&amp;source=univ&amp;tbm=isch&amp;q=louvre+boscoreale&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwi79fWEzrTtAhVLF1kFHZsjBKoQjJkEegQIAxAB&amp;biw=1120&amp;bih=571" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/search?sxsrf=ALeKk03aHN0YervHnu0WX36uBIqwyyBkfA:1607094631245&amp;source=univ&amp;tbm=isch&amp;q=louvre+boscoreale&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwi79fWEzrTtAhVLF1kFHZsjBKoQjJkEegQIAxAB&amp;biw=1120&amp;bih=571</a></p><p>The hoard was primarily silverware of great artistic value so the aurei were &#039;just coins&#039; to the finders.&nbsp; I have to wonder if there were any silver coins from Pompeii.&nbsp; If the silverware survived without being destroyed by the eruption/burial it would seem there might have been silver coins found somewhere in the area devastated by Vesuvius but I have not seen anything on the question.&nbsp; The gold coins took on a distinctive red color.&nbsp; What would a silver or bronze coin in the same house look like? There must have been many thousand coins in the area on that day.&nbsp; I&#039;m sure many were corroded out of existence but it would seem that some would have been preserved just as were the silverware.&nbsp; All the silver seems very &#039;cleaned&#039;.&nbsp; Is there any record of what was done to those pieces?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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