With the fall of the Aurellian wall (due to fire) in Rome...

STONE

DO you think there will be some numismatic discoveries taking place?

Talk amongst yourselves.

worldcoinguy

Fun to think of the possibilities, but the story does point out that the collapsed section was rebuilt in the 16th century......thats considered modern in terms of Rome isn't it?
google article link

Sapyx

I wouldn't think it too likely any ancient coins would be found, given that it was a modern section of wall that collapsed.


<< <i>...restoration on the entire endangered stretch would begin in a few months. It was not yet clear how much the works would cost, but Virgili said her budget stood at $2.88 million... >>


What they find depends on how much of that 2.88 million is going to pay for archaeological work. The real interesting stuff would be in the ground beneath the wall's foundations, rather than inside the wall itself. If they're doing it on the cheap, they'll just prop up and reinforce the broken bits, rather than disassemble it, archaeologically record and retrieve everything beneath the wall, and reconstruct it.

Not that we collectors are going to see one corroded quadrans of anything they find; in Italy, any artefacts older than 1500 are property of the State and cannot be bought and sold.

Alamar

<< <i>Not that we collectors are going to see one corroded quadrans of anything they find; in Italy, any artefacts older than 1500 are property of the State and cannot be bought and sold. >>



I wish I could get into the racket of waving guns at people and laying claim to anything old and valuable. Ah, the injustice of life.