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<p>[QUOTE="seth77, post: 7040161, member: 56653"]What happens to hoards very much depends on the region where they are found and on who finds them. This has always been the case and discrepancies are extreme. If for instance you have hoards found in the 1860s and kept safe from then on (even if the coins are billon or base metal) in Western Europe, in the East things were rather brutal for such finds -- Lord Grantley (I think) notes that Nicaean and Palaiologan hyperpera were sold for melting in Constantinople as late as the 1920s. And it's not hard to imagine that in places like Eastern Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Iran this practice is still in use.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="seth77, post: 7040161, member: 56653"]What happens to hoards very much depends on the region where they are found and on who finds them. This has always been the case and discrepancies are extreme. If for instance you have hoards found in the 1860s and kept safe from then on (even if the coins are billon or base metal) in Western Europe, in the East things were rather brutal for such finds -- Lord Grantley (I think) notes that Nicaean and Palaiologan hyperpera were sold for melting in Constantinople as late as the 1920s. And it's not hard to imagine that in places like Eastern Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Iran this practice is still in use.[/QUOTE]
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