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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 3198625, member: 76194&quot;]Just because some older coins were found in hoard, doesn&#039;t mean those coins circulated nonstop for 300 years. Perhaps they were burried for 30 to 50 years stretch as part of a family&#039;s savings, then dug out and circulated for a few years before ending up burried again for a few decades as part of another family&#039;s savings, and so on.</p><p><br /></p><p>But yes, previous finds have indicated that it is not uncommon to find coins that are 100 to 200 years older than the youngest coin in the hoard. That doesn&#039;t really surprise me considering people tended to bury their coins as there were no banks, so some of those coins were probably burried several times during their time in circulation.&nbsp; So what you find in the ground is the last guy or gal in this cycle who forgot to dig up their savings, or was killed or had to run away from a natural disasters, and never came back.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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