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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3902388, member: 19463&quot;]The write-up is better than many we see but still makes a couple interesting comments.&nbsp; There are no 100% silver coins here.&nbsp; All are after the first debasements.&nbsp; The author comments on the oddity of the coins being buried in a wooded area perhaps missing the point that many places have cycled between cleared and wooded in the last 1800 years so we really do not know if these were buried 10 paces north of the old oak tree or in a leather bag in a wooden cupboard in a thatched hut.&nbsp; I do find it interesting that rather few of the coins are worn slick.&nbsp; The inclusion of a high grade Vespasian makes me wonder if the group was deposited over more than one generation rather than being what was pulled from general circulation in the time of Commodus.&nbsp; We can have theories on things like this but proof is not easy.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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