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Message:: [QUOTE="TuckHard, post: 7025638, member: 102653"]Hoards are super interesting to me, I wrote about an <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/selection-of-arabic-dirhams-from-an-unpublished-northern-sumatra-hoard-of-jago-jago.360757/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/selection-of-arabic-dirhams-from-an-unpublished-northern-sumatra-hoard-of-jago-jago.360757/">unpublished hoard</a> of Arabic silver dirhams that had been discovered in North Sumatra, present-day Indonesia. I've heard that in the colonial period ships would fill up with mud/gravel in Europe and then dump it in the Americas to load up on New World goods to take back to Europe. I forget the name of the process or its exact function, I don't know much about boating. But anyways I've read that the process was credited for dumping the few and far between Roman coins that have been discovered in the Americas. In Indonesia, when the Dutch (and British) were starting to get involved they were reporting large finds of native coinage (from around 800-1300 AD) but little attention was paid in most cases, I don't know of any hoard from the region that was discovered prior to 1900 that stayed in tact or was even researched thoroughly. Usually the Dutch notes just say "800 silver coins found at X", and the provenance of the hoard was lost there.[/QUOTE]