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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gao, post: 1331821, member: 19409&quot;]As far as I know, they&#039;re still studying them and haven&#039;t put forward an estimate yet.&nbsp; It would depend largely on the condition and exactly what they are.&nbsp; It sounds like there were about 300 coins and that most of them were actually of Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius, so if we want a really rough idea of value, we could multiply a roughly average price of a decent common denarius of one of those emperors (which I think is like $40-50, though I haven&#039;t shopped for one of these guys in a while, and VCoins isn&#039;t working for me right now).&nbsp; So that would get us $12,000-15,000.&nbsp; Again, that&#039;s very rough.&nbsp; There were a few Nero coins in there, which are worth more, but I also saw at least one coin broken in half, which really kills the value.&nbsp; These could also easily be mostly in great condition, or it could be that half of them are near slugs, and there could be some rather rare types in there.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And the person who originally posted this video on Forvm also linked to <a href="http://lettersfromlidongni.blogspot.com/2011/12/sexy-science-of-coin-hoards.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://lettersfromlidongni.blogspot.com/2011/12/sexy-science-of-coin-hoards.html" rel="nofollow">an article on how they&#039;re currently imaging the coins without removing them from the dirt</a>, which is pretty interesting and gives us a slightly better idea of what&#039;s in there.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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