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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gsimonel, post: 4597968, member: 82549&quot;]I think it&#039;s possible that some coins have never been buried. Your Vatican example is one possibility. There may also be some 5th century gold coins that were just shipped to whichever particular leader was being bribed not to invade the Empire and sat in a storehouse until they were eventually dispersed to different noble families and became heirlooms. </p><p><br /></p><p>I suppose any coin that was part of a royal treasury could have gone directly from the treasury into a collection. So I think it&#039;s more . . . well, I&#039;ll say accurate, others may say chicken-hearted, to sneak the qualifier &quot;virtually&quot; in there, especially if you&#039;re writing an article about ancient coins and getting paid by the word.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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