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Roman Coins Found On Dutch Riverbank Were Offerings To The Gods

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I won't post a link, but an interesting article appeared yesterday in the Daily Mail. Apparently, a 2017 metal-detector trove of 107 Roman coins found in the Netherlands has been studied and a verdict has been rendered: they were left by travelers wishing for safe passage between 27 BC and 180 AD. If you Google the title, you should be able to track down the article for yourself.
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Here's the source article on LiveScience that everyone else seems to be copying, including some pictures of the actual coins found.

As for the conclusion: "ritual purposes" is the standard fallback explanation. When a normal person is asked a question about a mystery that they don't know the answer to, they say "We don't know". An archeologist answers "It was for ritual purposes".
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Is the number of coins significant?
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Number of coins found was a little over 100, although obviously some may have been corroded or washed away with time. Doesn't seem like a huge number to me, especially if spread over more than 200 years. Perhaps it was more like a modern-day tossing of coins into a fountain, as there has always been a human fascination with that "ritual," even today?
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