“Construction workers repairing water pipes in Seville, southern Spain, have discovered 600kg of ancient Roman coins, covered with dirt and dust. The find is said to be worth at least “several million euros.”
“Tens of thousands of bronze coins, dating back to the third and fourth centuries, were found inside 19 Roman amphoras in the town of Tomares near Seville, El Pais reported.
"’This find is extremely important,’ Ana Navarro, head of Seville’s Archeology Museum now looking after the find, told
El Pais. ‘It is a unique collection, and there are very few similar cases,’ she added.”
https://www.rt.com/news/341324-roman-coins-spain-tons/
(Ms. Navarro is a fine practitioner of understatement.)
“’I could not give you a monetary value, because the value they really have is historical and you can’t calculate that.’”
(Oh, I’m certain somebody can calculate the modern value. And will. And did in an earlier paragraph.)
Link at http://neveryetmelted.com/
You have to wonder: Why did someone bury that many coins? Who deposited the coins? Maybe the jars were not buried by the owner, but by time.
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