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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gsimonel, post: 2586250, member: 82549&quot;]I was able to track down some more information about the antoniniani hoard discovery:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.econ.ohio-state.edu/jhm/arch/coins/fallsoh.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.econ.ohio-state.edu/jhm/arch/coins/fallsoh.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.econ.ohio-state.edu/jhm/arch/coins/fallsoh.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Here a photo of the display:</p><p><img src="http://www.fallsoftheohio.org/images/17ACoinsandgorgetcropped.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s another write-up about this hoard: </p><p><a href="http://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2009/05/roman-coins-3rd-4th-century-ad-found-in.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2009/05/roman-coins-3rd-4th-century-ad-found-in.html" rel="nofollow">http://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2009/05/roman-coins-3rd-4th-century-ad-found-in.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The above write-up contains this jaw-dropping sentence:</p><p>&quot;the exhibit has recently been removed from public display, because the Museum belongs to the state of Indiana, and <a href="http://www.econ.ohio-state.edu/jhm/arch/coins/fallsoh.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.econ.ohio-state.edu/jhm/arch/coins/fallsoh.htm" rel="nofollow">the exhibit conflicted with the state&#039;s archaeological policy that there is no documented evidence of pre-Columbian contacts</a>.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>This mentality, by the way, is one of the reasons that I don&#039;t regret leaving Indiana, a state with a legislature that at one time seriously debated passing a law mandating that the value of pi was 3:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://simoslife.blogspot.com/2015/12/fixing-pi-to-spite-purdue.html?q=purdue" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://simoslife.blogspot.com/2015/12/fixing-pi-to-spite-purdue.html?q=purdue" rel="nofollow">http://simoslife.blogspot.com/2015/12/fixing-pi-to-spite-purdue.html?q=purdue</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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