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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Spaniard, post: 3780351, member: 90248&quot;][USER=105389]@bcuda[/USER] ...</p><p>...<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie52" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />....Yep I know where your coming from!!...Great scenario!....I once saw a small finca (a tiny country house) owned by an old olive farmer whose bathroom sinks splashback was made up of approx 250 Roman bronzes, mostly sestertius, just stuck on with tile adhesive!!...Beautiful verdigris colouring ! He was really proud of it <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie100" alt=":wideyed:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />....I remember there being some nice coins between the grouting!...And he had never owned a metal detector!.......People whose shower trays were made from various &#039;BIG&#039; shell and animal fossils that they had inadvertently found whilst out walking in the &#039;Campo&#039;!...I have a friend who deep snorkels with harpoon for fish and in his living room there is 30% of a Roman amphora, varnished and stuck on a piece of olive wood as an ornament! So I think after reading [USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER] and [USER=89687]@ominus1[/USER] &#039;s comments I understand how difficult it is to convey just how rich this country is when it comes to not only ancient coins but artifacts aswell. I know you&#039;ve had first hand experience of this, maybe you&#039;ll be back some day<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=98035]@Finn235[/USER] ....Here you still find a lot of nails, ring pulls and probably the worst is Aluminium foil! Everyone who works in the countryside wraps their &#039;Bocadillo&#039; in it and it &#039;PINGS&#039; high!.....Plus its quite hard to differentiate, at least on my machine!</p><p><br /></p><p>Guys you have to try and picture the place you find these pieces, which are usually on olive or almond fincas (orchards)...away from the urban sprawl...These fincas can be 80 to 600 years old or more! Some are still cultivated but a lot have been abandoned. Terraced dry stone walls everywhere and a great deal of these unused fincas have been taken over by large pine forests so the general lay of the land has certainly been transformed......Thought I&#039;d just try to present a picture of how it is here...Nothing more..<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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