{"id":1552712,"date":"2022-07-13T14:19:34","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T18:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1552712"},"modified":"2022-07-13T14:19:55","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T18:19:55","slug":"mystery-emerges-after-ancient-roman-gold-coins-discovered-in-farmland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mystery-emerges-after-ancient-roman-gold-coins-discovered-in-farmland\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystery Emerges After Ancient Roman Gold Coins Discovered In Farmland"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmystery-emerges-after-ancient-roman-gold-coins-discovered-in-farmland%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1552712&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A stash of ancient <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/italy\">Roman<\/a> coins buried throughout eastern England\u2019s farmland has raised questions about the coins\u2019 history.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In Norfolk, a rural county on the eastern coast of England, at least 11 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/history\">ancient<\/a> gold coins linked to Rome have been found by metal detectorists, a collective find known in the area as the \u201cBroads Hoard,\u201d because of local rivers and lakes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe coins were found scattered around in the plow soil, which has been churned up year after year, causing the soil to be turned over constantly and led to them eventually coming to the surface,\u201d Adrian Marsden, a numismatist (coin expert), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/roman-gold-coin-hoard-discovered-uk\">told<\/a> Live Science.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Experts question how the coins ended up where they did because they were made before the Romans invaded and conquered Britain from roughly 43-84 A.D. Early theories suggest that the coins could have been part of a religious sacrifice or a trade deal of some kind.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s apparent that [the coins] went into the ground before the invasion,\u201d Marsden said. \u201cIt\u2019s possible that they could\u2019ve been part of some type of offering to the gods, but more likely someone buried them with the intention of recovering them later.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGold was often used as trade, so it\u2019s possible that a local tribe could\u2019ve gotten ahold of the coins and perhaps planned to use them for other things, such as melting them down to make jewelry,\u201d he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2017, the first coins were discovered by locals Damon and Denise Pye who were going through fields after they were plowed up by farmers after harvesting their crop. Marsden said that he expects more coins to be discovered as people continue to go through the fields hoping to be the next person to find a piece of ancient history.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In an article for The Searcher, Marsden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/75407475\/THE_BROADS_HOARD\">detailed<\/a> the specifics of the coins, several of which bear the image of the grandsons of Caesar Augustus. Augustus was the first emperor of Rome and largely responsible for turning Rome into an empire.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the second half of Augustus\u2019 reign, when his position was consolidated, the types [of coins] with dynastic reference increased as an indication of his succession, as is the case here with the extensive coinage for his grandsons, Gaius and Lucius Caesar,\u201d Marjanko Pileki\u0107, a coin expert told LiveScience.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The coins found to date, worth about $25,000 collectively, have been placed in an exhibit in the British Museum. Other artifacts, like Roman copper coins and brooches, have also been found in the region. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A stash of ancient Roman coins buried throughout eastern England\u2019s farmland has raised questions about the coins\u2019 history.\u00a0 In Norfolk, a rural county on the eastern coast of England, at least 11 ancient gold coins linked to Rome have been found by metal detectorists, a collective find known in the area as the \u201cBroads Hoard,\u201d &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":200,"featured_media":1552809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1552712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1552712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1552809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1552712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1552712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1552712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}