52,000 Roman Coins

[Whitefang]

An adventurer with a metal detector found 52,000 Roman Coins worth about $1 million. This is a pretty outstanding find.

I for one would want to keep the coins, or at least some of them. Maybe sell some in order to pay to clean up the ones I keep. It also gives me an inspiration to bury some coins in order to make some lucky chap in the future a million future bucks. That would be pretty cool.

[armeck]

wow that's cool! i used to collect coins, not seriously or anything but i've done some world traveling and i would save coins from other countries XD

[Tsukuyomi]

That's pretty cool If I were allowed to save any, I would distribute a few thou to loved ones ~<3 Then, donate the rest here and there 8D

[KhakiBlueSocks]

[font="Trebuchet MS"][SIZE="4"][color="RoyalBlue"]That's 520 Extra Lives in "Super Mario World"! He must've found the Top Secret Place!

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I remember reading this article the other day. That must've been something to put your hand inside a hole and pull out a handful of gold coins.[/color][/SIZE][/font]

[Technomancer]

Neat. He'll probably be allowed to keep a good portion of it. Since he's declared trove, the government (museums) will basically have the first pick, but unless there's something particularly interesting about the collection, or some of the individual coins, there's little reason for them to want to keep it.

[Angel37]

So cool! What a find!

[crusader88]

As a numismatist this interests me; I'd probably keep them all. But just in case anyone ever does find some valuable coins I'll repeat the standard advice: Don't clean your coins! Unless you're just removing dirt with warm water, the result is almost always bad!