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Message:: [QUOTE="medoraman, post: 1320231, member: 26302"]Lots of reasons there are so many ancients. The primary one being logistics. Simply put, there were no banks. If you had a large amount of cash to sasfeguard you had to PAY someone to safeguard it, and even then it was not insured if stolen. Instead of that, everyone simply found a tree they knew, or a stone, or some other landmark and buried their savings. This is known because of large amounts of these are found protected in pots buried in the ground. Some of these hoards are MASSIVE. One hoard of gold Roman coins numbered in the hundred of thousands, and were so common most of these gold coins were melted down. Even today, its is known a hoard of ancient Jewish coins was found a few years ago numbering in the hundreds of thousands. Even ignoring these hoards, coins then were like they are now, and were simply dropped and lost. A lot of this ground is being metal detected and these coins found. Remember "Ancient coins", even if limited to around the Meditteranean, were minted in the tens or hundreds of millions cumulatively each year for 1000 years. There we, in total, a LOT minted, billions. Law of large numbers will tell you many should survive, and do.[/QUOTE]