great story, new hoard found, many lost

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http://archaeologyinbulgaria.com/20...nfirms-existence-roman-town-bulgarias-mezdra/

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Hope the local Bulgarians would deliver the remaining missing coins to the Museum.

 

Thanks for sharing.


Thanks,
Jacob

 

It's so cool to that there are still significant undiscovered hoards scattered throughout the ancient Roman world.....

 

Great article. Thank you for sharing it.

 

An unusual find with denarii of mid to late First Century coins of pretty fine silver in contemporary circulation with coins of heavily debased silver. I had no idea that the earlier, finer, coins had not been pulled out of circulation by the Third Century.

 

That's a very informative article. Thanks for sharing it.

 

'A total of 183 coins were brought by some of the locals to the Vratsa Regional Museum of History some two weeks after the discovery, and Mezdra Municipality first announced the find in the middle of September. Four more coins were brought to the museum several days later.'

Certainly seems the villagers took more than their fair share, photographic evidence works heavily against them lol.

 

I have a feeling the bulk of those 800 missing coins made it onto eBay already.

 

I’m sure the government can afford to pay prices just above black market for unclean coins to encourage reporting. Their history/heritage is very important to them, judging by the MOUs...

 

Great and detailed article!

 

Which in addition to the Bulgarian counterfeits is another reason not to buy anything from that country.

 

The counterfeits could depreciate in value with 800 real ones on the market.

 

Sounds like the majority of coins were looted.

 

I read yesterday about a hoard of medieval silver coins being found at a famous abbey in France. There were some gold artifacts in there as well. Think the place was called Cluny or some such name. Here is the link, explains it much better than my rambling and mumbling...

http://www.kitco.com/news/2017-11-1...-Hoard-Discovered-In-Northeastern-France.html

 

I see that most of the Cluny hoard is from a narrow period of time, which is what most coin hoards are. Often an ancient hoard will be one of coins within a few decades of each other. In most other Roman hoards often the coins are mostly of just one emperor with a few of predecessors and a few immediately following that emperor's reign. In the case of the Bulgarian find they are spread over a couple centuries. What might account for a hoard covering that much time? Were they all from the same jar? Several jars with coins of only a short period of time in each one or all mixed up over a two century or so period of time? Might coins have been placed in those jars consistently over that two century period as a kind of savings bank or perhaps a shrine where worshippers deposited offerings over a long period of time such as pool neat Bath?

 

How about a coin collection?

 

Maybe...

 

I think, for all our lives, we all have not so secretly wanted to find a stash of treasure. Not some pile of mouldy old paper notes but real, tangible doubloons and pieces of eight...even a stack of gold ingots would do. It might be very unpleasant if the local authorities and gunslingers felt legally obliged to seize our loot. Best to keep clam, A?