Rare Ancient Roman Treasure Unearthed By Metal Detectorists In Poland

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willieboyd2 Pillar of the Community United States 525 Posts	Posted 07/30/2024 1:47 pm From CBS NEWS: Metal detectorists in Poland helped discover a large cache of ancient Roman coins, Polish officials announced. The "Group of Explorers" regularly search for metal artifacts and treasures, according to a social media post Friday from the Lublin Voivodeship Conservator of Monuments. The group, began a search of the fields surrounding the small town of Ksiezopol. The rarest items found by the searchers were a small cache of ancient Roman denars, or silver coins. There were three silver denars imprinted with the face of Roman emperor Antonius Pius, minted sometime between 138 and 161, as well as a silver denar imprinted with the face of his wife, Faustina the Younger, minted in 141. A fourth coin with the face of Antonius Pius was found, but this one was minted between 146 and 152, and a part had been intentionally cut away, likely during a trade exchange, according to the conservator. There was also a silver denar with the face of Marcus Aurelius, minted in 174. There were also some counterfeit denars, made by the Germanic Visigoths. One coin could not be read, but another was again of Antonius Pius. This counterfeit coin is "poorly readable," the conservator noted, but has an image of the emperor and a copy of the inscription on the real coins. CBS News Article: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rare-a...ts-in-poland https://www.brianrxm.com The Mysterious Egyptian Magic Coin Coins in Movies Coins on Television Report this Post to the Staff

jbuck Moderator United States 188213 Posts	Posted 07/30/2024 2:14 pm Very interesting! Coin Collector Since 1978 Avatar Old Avatar 7070 Eisenhower Australia Canada World CCF Members on eBay CCF eBay Search Engine Report this Post to the Staff
Coinfrog Bedrock of the Community United States 94367 Posts	Posted 07/30/2024 3:47 pm Good link for sure. Report this Post to the Staff
tdziemia Pillar of the Community United States 7940 Posts	Posted 07/31/2024 09:34 am Very cool! I knew there were finds of Byzantine coins in Poland in some reasonable numbers, but never heard of Roman. I guess people were moving around everywhere ... Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16826 Posts	Posted 07/31/2024 10:45 pm As I posted elsewhere on the topic... Finding any Roman coin is rare in Poland, since Poland is well beyond the boundary of Roman territory. Finding Roman coins in a proper archaeological context in Germany is scarce enough, and Poland is even further out into the darkness (from the Roman point of view). I'd imagine this treasure-hunting group in Poland would be mostly used to finding relics from WWI or WWII. "Denar" is, of course, the Polish name for the coins, which for some reason has not properly translated. In English, we normally call them a "denarius". I'd like to see the "Visigothic denarius". The Visigoths didn't arrive on the Roman borders until around AD 300, long after Antoninus Pius denarii would have vanished from circulation, and generally lived far to the south of Poland. So it probably is "barbaric imitative", but not Visigothic. 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
tdziemia Pillar of the Community United States 7940 Posts	Posted 08/01/2024 07:56 am My first thought was whether the coins could have been circulating in the "hinterlands" long after they would have been legal tender in the Empire? With a little more digging though (pun intended), it turns out that Polish (including Silesian) mines and primitive smelting furnaces were the largest European source of iron in Roman times, including major areas both north and west of this find (M. Piwocki and S.Przenioslo, Przeglad Geologniczy 52 (2004) citing Pazdur (1969) ). So maybe there was a previously unknown settlement there, on a known trade route (this location was also at the eastern edge of the Amber road). Finally, concerning hyperbole in news reporting, the "large cache of ancient Roman coins" reported by CBS was exactly 7 coins. I think most of us would have expected the term "large cache" to be followed by a number in the hundreds to thousands. Edited by tdziemia 08/01/2024 08:05 am Report this Post to the Staff
nss-52 Moderator United States 54280 Posts	Posted 08/01/2024 08:53 am They found "a very large number of metal archaeological monuments". Show your financial support of the Coin Community Family (click here) See my topic on Mexican Numismatic Medals (click here) Report this Post to the Staff
tdziemia Pillar of the Community United States 7940 Posts	Posted 08/01/2024 1:10 pm Quote: They found "a very large number of metal archaeological monuments". First line of the CBS story linked in the OP: "Metal detectorists in Poland helped discover a large cache of ancient Roman coins, Polish officials announced. " It's like that telephone game ... The polish official made the statment you quoted, then CSS substituted "large cache of ancient coins" for "large number of metal archaeological mouments." By the time it gets to the New York Post it's "two-headed Polish giant finds a thousand gold doubloons struck by aliens while digging foundation with his bare hands." Report this Post to the Staff
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