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<p>[QUOTE="Tejas, post: 7806268, member: 84905"]It would seem so. Ancient Chinese coin hoards have been found in large numbers and individual hoards are sometimes measured not by number of coins, but in kilograms and even tons.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is a picture of a hoard of Northern Song coins from the 10th century. It contained some 3 tons of coins</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1340770[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Another (?) hoard containing 1000 year old coins weighed over 5 tons:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.numismaticnews.net/world-coins/chinese-coin-hoard-weighs-tons" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.numismaticnews.net/world-coins/chinese-coin-hoard-weighs-tons" rel="nofollow">https://www.numismaticnews.net/world-coins/chinese-coin-hoard-weighs-tons</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I didn't read the details, but this hoard seemed to have contained some 10 tons of 2000 year old coins:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.numismaticnews.net/world-coins/details-of-chinese-coin-hoard-published" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.numismaticnews.net/world-coins/details-of-chinese-coin-hoard-published" rel="nofollow">https://www.numismaticnews.net/world-coins/details-of-chinese-coin-hoard-published</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I would expect if 2 million coins come to the market, individual coins would only be worth a few dollars, despite being more than 2000 years old:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://coinweek.com/coins/treasure-2/millions-of-ancient-chinese-copper-coins-discovered/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://coinweek.com/coins/treasure-2/millions-of-ancient-chinese-copper-coins-discovered/" rel="nofollow">https://coinweek.com/coins/treasure-2/millions-of-ancient-chinese-copper-coins-discovered/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Tejas, post: 7806268, member: 84905"]It would seem so. Ancient Chinese coin hoards have been found in large numbers and individual hoards are sometimes measured not by number of coins, but in kilograms and even tons. This is a picture of a hoard of Northern Song coins from the 10th century. It contained some 3 tons of coins [ATTACH=full]1340770[/ATTACH] Another (?) hoard containing 1000 year old coins weighed over 5 tons: [URL]https://www.numismaticnews.net/world-coins/chinese-coin-hoard-weighs-tons[/URL] I didn't read the details, but this hoard seemed to have contained some 10 tons of 2000 year old coins: [URL]https://www.numismaticnews.net/world-coins/details-of-chinese-coin-hoard-published[/URL] I would expect if 2 million coins come to the market, individual coins would only be worth a few dollars, despite being more than 2000 years old: [URL]https://coinweek.com/coins/treasure-2/millions-of-ancient-chinese-copper-coins-discovered/[/URL][/QUOTE]
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