Neat place to find a gold coin...
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Its neat to wonder who could have touched that coin and to know how long its been sitting there.
Its neat to wonder who could have touched that coin and to know how long its been sitting there.
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Something seems fishy. Why would a gold roman coin be laying in the grass and not buried under several inches of dirt after several hundred years?
I remember reading somewhere that during Georgia's "gold rush" that nuggets could be found laying on the ground.
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In the Korean DMZ, we always had to be on the lookout for objects moving or uncovering in the monsoons.
I lost a soldier, 3rd day in country, stepped on a mine in a clear area, during the monsoon, as the mine had washed out of a known minefield. Took off his leg below the knee.
I found a US Army Colt .45 pistol, horribly rusted, 3 rounds in the mag, 1 in the pipe, *****ed.
Also found a WWII Russian PPSH41 Sub Machine, again, very rusted, as things uncover during earth movement.
We were always looking for human remains, as the DMZ was a battlefield for several years.
Something seems fishy. Why would a gold roman coin be laying in the grass and not buried under several inches of dirt after several hundred years?
I remember reading somewhere that during Georgia's "gold rush" that nuggets could be found laying on the ground.
Gold nuggets are one thing. They occur naturally, and their shape can be changed naturally without noticeable damage. Coins are another. Gold is close to chemically inert, but a coin would not stay this nice laying on top of the earth for a thousand years.
Something seems fishy. Why would a gold roman coin be laying in the grass and not buried under several inches of dirt after several hundred years?
I remember reading somewhere that during Georgia's "gold rush" that nuggets could be found laying on the ground.
Gold nuggets are one thing. They occur naturally, and their shape can be changed naturally without noticeable damage. Coins are another. Gold is close to chemically inert, but a coin would not stay this nice laying on top of the earth for a thousand years.
If you paid attention to the video of where the coin was found, you would have noticed that the topography there is extremely rocky. And not all of the rocks are necessarily above the turf. If this coin had been dropped centuries ago on soft soil that was very loose and shallow above buried rock, the coin could easily have remained buried shallow for centuries of soil and rock movement caused by cycles of weather including rainstorms and even ground frost.
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