CALAMOSCOPYJANE
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Found only 30cm below soil surface. 72 aurei and 288 denarii found in NL. Coins found range from 200BC to AD47. Full article here: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jan/27/hoard-of-coins-dating-from-roman-conquest-of-britain-found-near-utrecht
AllTheGoodOnesWereGone
“You don’t think I’d go into combat with a bunch of loose change in my pocket?”
ivymantled69
I ALWAYS wonder at the series of events that lead to treasure staying hidden. The willpower or means to accumulate the hoard in the first place. The secret that needs to be kept or never shared. The hiding place that has to be found, which is either well chosen or luckily overlooked. And then the owner of the treasure has to die in some circumstance that leaves no record.
Morganelefay
The Utrecht area often has very interesting Roman archaeology finds. Did my "big school project" on a ship that was found buried slightly to the west of it, and there are other traces still visible here. Lovely if you're into that stuff.
HandoB4Javert
https://www.utrechtaltijd.nl/themas/the-roman-coin-hoard-of-bunnik/ From the source
woozle
CHillyFrilly
memoryshuffle
Can you run Crysis on them?
Allrighty
No but it does do Ryse: Son of Rome
Redshadow09
What is their worth now as a collector's item or whatever you might call it?
Munchman347
'Best I can do is $3.50...'
softballguy
RevRagnarok
RElGNMAN
Those stayed in circulation an awful long time before being buried.
derekjohn
When I was young (the 1960s) the old pre-decimal coinage was still in circulation. The oldest coin I ever got in change was George III, 1815
fusselwurm
this is wild. like… i live in berlin. i've seen three currencies in my lifetime, and i'm not *that* old yet.
MattDude
Must be worth at least 10 quid.
JustSomePersonThere
Way more in caps.
amp99
RedCamaro
how diluted is the denarius?
CALAMOSCOPYJANE
You mean chipped?
RedCamaro
No. Diluted. Roman silver coins gradually lost their silver content. It was the ancient form of currency devaluation. We experience the same thing today as a loss of purchasing power by money printing from central banks.
CALAMOSCOPYJANE
Oh you mean economic dilution. There was also the issue of people gradually shaving tiny amounts off of the coins themselves.
Slugsie
Some poor Roman soldier had to return home to his wife and explain why he doesn't have the last 11 years worth of wages. Probably ended up back in the cold and wet in England, defending the wall against the Scots.
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LordKitchenersValet
Mature content. NSFW. All hail the moderators.
Slugsie
I got the exact same response for another comment recently. Imgur mods are being a little OTT right now.
spattr
It's hard to track down those Roaming coins.
insanitycontinuum
I thought they were from the Rou-Ming Dynasty of China?
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Hunterfisher10
CALAMOSCOPYJANE
trinxter
Who shined them up?
Youhavinagiraffe
The person who took the stock photo probably
DiscoveredByTheGermansIn1904
LordKitchenersValet
File this with "how to get out of quicksand" and "how to survive piranhas" in "things that seem like they'll be useful but never will", but if you find ancient valuable coins, be gentle with them and do not try to shine them up or clean them in any way or you could halve their value.
afewgoodhens
Halve their value if you're lucky. Here's a story of a guy who paid $102K for a coin, could have been worth $250K or more today, but he polished it and dropped its value to maybe $10K. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk0F_sQY-kM
Icanhearwhatyouresayingandtheanswerisno
I’m reasonably sure that’s not the hoard in question
CALAMOSCOPYJANE
I’m thinking you’re likely correct. Going to check it out after work.
HandoB4Javert
https://www.utrechtaltijd.nl/verhalen/the-bunnik-hoard-2023/ Those are the coins found
CALAMOSCOPYJANE
Dank je wel. Ik hou van Nederland.
HandoB4Javert
https://www.utrechtaltijd.nl/verhalen/the-bunnik-hoard-2023/ It is the real hoard.
CALAMOSCOPYJANE
Echt gaaf, hoor!
CALAMOSCOPYJANE
It actually is.
Icanhearwhatyouresayingandtheanswerisno
Well I’ll be damned
FiftyShadesOfArugula
One aureus featured King Juba of Numidia / modern day Algeria. It's wild to think how it got there. If these were indeed spoils of war from the conquest of Britain, some British celt must have been in the possession of a coin minted in North Africa.
CALAMOSCOPYJANE
That’s really cool, thx for commenting.
mormacil
Not that wild, Rome specifically stationed troops from far away in provinces to minimize a connection between them and the population they controlled. Britain specifically used a lot of Levantine soldiers, especially Syrians.
RunawaySpoons
Trade was already quite prolific in the pre-Roman era, so very possible.
ArchaeoEejit
They found Roman coins in Japan.
henryvk
Is it so wild? In the Bronze Age, everyone needed tin which Britain had in abundance and traded far and wide.
RoutemasterFlash
Yep, and amber from the Baltic got as far as Mesopotamia.
FiftyShadesOfArugula
It was wild to me at least because I've never given this much thought. I still get excited when I get a Euro coin as change that was minted in Spain or Greece. The only non-EU currency in my possession are a few British coins. Goes to show that I haven't traveled very far.
henryvk
Fair enough, the Euro coins are cool. I just read „The Celts“ by Nora Chadwick and she talks about how the La Tène artists were informed by Greek and Roman designs and Irish monks by what was going on in Syrian or Coptic monasteries and I’m ready to believe anything rn
CALAMOSCOPYJANE
People in ancient times got around far more than most people would think.