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wolfie001

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5. I find numismatics so interesting

Reply to rampartd (Reply #4)

Wed Dec 17, 2025, 09:10 AM

Dec 17

I include govt. bonds in that descriptor. The amphorae recently uncovered on a French farm stuffed with like 20,000 (maybe more) coins from the breakaway Gallic Empire province around 270 CE. Just what was happening to cause them to bury that amount of coinage? Must've been quite bad. Cheers

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I saw a sheet of Confederate bonds (1864?) that someone kept as an heirloom wolfie001 Dec 17 #3

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