Roman Coins Found On Dutch Riverbank Were Offerings To The Gods

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halfamind Pillar of the Community United States 1489 Posts	Posted 07/15/2021 10:02 pm 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. Report this Post to the Staff

Sap Moderator Australia 16817 Posts	Posted 07/15/2021 10:48 pm 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". Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis Report this Post to the Staff
John1 Moderator United States 56855 Posts	Posted 07/16/2021 04:16 am Is the number of coins significant? John1 Edited by John1 07/16/2021 04:16 am Report this Post to the Staff
halfamind Pillar of the Community United States 1489 Posts	Posted 07/16/2021 06:42 am 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? Report this Post to the Staff
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