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Did anyone hear about 1.5 tons of coins found buried in China?
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The story in English ( on a site in China)
A cellar containing 1.5 tons of ancient coins, including some 2,000-year-old ones, have been discovered by a villager in Changzi County, north China's Shanxi Province.
The man in Qianwanhu village discovered the cellar with some 10,000 coins, ranging from 3 cm to 1 cm in diameter, on Aug. 23 when he was digging a channel to place pipes for tap water, said Li Lin, an official of the Changzi Center of Cultural Heritage and Tourism.
The "money cellar" was 1.5 meters under the earth, with coins being piled orderly into a cuboid of 1.3 meters long, 0.65 meter wide and one meter high, Li said.
Most of the coins were made during the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127) with the remainders made during Han Dynasty (206 BC-220 AD) and Tang Dynasty (618-907), Li said.
Many coins were in good condition, and characters on the surface were still legible, while some others were rusty. The largest coin is 3 cm in diameter and the smallest is one cm, Li said.
Archaeologists said the coins were there for three reasons: the coins were liege lords' private wealth; or they were buried by ancient Chinese private banks during war; or they belonged to rich people who buried them during war but had forgotten.
The coins have been sent to local cultural relics authorities.
Source: Xinhua
A cellar containing 1.5 tons of ancient coins, including some 2,000-year-old ones, have been discovered by a villager in Changzi County, north China's Shanxi Province.
The man in Qianwanhu village discovered the cellar with some 10,000 coins, ranging from 3 cm to 1 cm in diameter, on Aug. 23 when he was digging a channel to place pipes for tap water, said Li Lin, an official of the Changzi Center of Cultural Heritage and Tourism.
The "money cellar" was 1.5 meters under the earth, with coins being piled orderly into a cuboid of 1.3 meters long, 0.65 meter wide and one meter high, Li said.
Most of the coins were made during the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127) with the remainders made during Han Dynasty (206 BC-220 AD) and Tang Dynasty (618-907), Li said.
Many coins were in good condition, and characters on the surface were still legible, while some others were rusty. The largest coin is 3 cm in diameter and the smallest is one cm, Li said.
Archaeologists said the coins were there for three reasons: the coins were liege lords' private wealth; or they were buried by ancient Chinese private banks during war; or they belonged to rich people who buried them during war but had forgotten.
The coins have been sent to local cultural relics authorities.
Source: Xinhua
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I am more impress with those mummies that are still flexible after being buried for thousands of years.
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That would be alot if gold, quit a bit if silver, and interesting if copper.
<< <i>I am sure there are many other things buried in the ground when a society is thousands of years old.
I am more impress with those mummies that are still flexible after being buried for thousands of years. >>
There is an amazing cache somewhere near Bodie from a stagecoach robbery that has never been recovered. The robbers were killed. I suspect it is buried in the grave of a child who died in town the same week. Nobody's gonna dig that up though, at least not legally.
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<< <i>Wonder if any of them are trade dollars? >>
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<< <i>I can foresee headlines several centuries from now about huge numbers of gold colored coins discovered in ancient vaults in Kentucky. >>
<< <i>Wonder if any of them are trade dollars? >>
Did they counterfeit them back then too??
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<< <i>Wonder if any of them are trade dollars? >>
Gotta be kidding ,,,, right?
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<< <i>Wonder what metal they where? That would be alot if gold, quit a bit if silver, and interesting if copper. >>
...Probably lead.
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