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Message:: [QUOTE="JPD3, post: 24814341, member: 116216"][USER=81887]@Parthicus[/USER] and [USER=128351]@GinoLR[/USER] :Thank You very much good sirs. I emailed my Pastor your conclusions about the coins I posted. He was extremely happy and very impressed with your findings. Slowly but surely I will attempt to clean others that I feel will produce markings to identify them. It will be an ongoing endeavor, though. Quite a few are "fused together" and I have broken 4 trying to separate individual pieces. The cloth bag was reminiscent of burlap and is now long gone. The remaining lump of coins was hardened. I'm the one who told my friend to soak them in olive oil. He has been doing so for a month, before presenting this treasure. We have no idea when they were placed in the ground. As they are various denominations from varied time frames and possibly many empires, we haven't a clue when or by whom they were amassed. I did learn the "back history" concerning this lot: This man's father was with the 86th Mtn. Infantry Div. during WW2. He participated in an assault of a place called Riva Ridge and a battle of Mt. Belvedere (Belvedere Marittimo Italy, near the Southern coast). When digging a foxhole the soldier struck what he thought was a rock. It was a deteriorated cloth sack filled with coins and hardened dirt. Thinking to investigate at a latter date, he placed it in his gas mask bag. He brought this lump home as a curiosity from the war and left it in his garage. After his father passed away my Preacher recovered it and has held it since. Again, many thanks for your expertise concerning this trove. I will, as time permits, continue to uncover the past with your help. I think we'll call it the "Preacher's Hoard" for now. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> [ATTACH=full]1588318[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]

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