9.

The Wesley Carrington Hoard

In June 2013, a British man named Wesley Carrington made one of the most spectacular discoveries

of the century.

After buying a metal detector as a hobby, he used it in the woods near St. Albans, Hertfordshire.

Initially, he did pretty well, he found a spoon and a halfpenny.

And then he discovered a gold coin.

As the metal detector continued to beep even after finding the coin, he began to dig.

Soon, he unearthed 55 more gold Roman coins.

He took the coins to a local museum who inspected the coins and told him they dated back 1,600

years.

The coins - minted in Italy as well as in other parts of Europe - were in use during

the Empire of six Roman Emperors from Honorius to Gratian.

Carrington later admitted he used tricks he learned on YouTube to make the find but didn’t

really know how to use his metal detector.

He said it was the cheapest detector he could find so there is plenty of hope for everyone

out there who wants a cool hobby!

I bet there were plenty of other people who have super expensive metal detectors and have

never found anything, They are probably hating Carrington right now.

The coins are estimated to be worth over £100,000 ($128,000).

Plans were made to auction the coins but no information could be found as to how much

money Carrington received for his find.

8.

Roman Coins in Japan

In 2013, a discovery was made that still baffles archaeologists.

Katsuren Castle in Okinawa Island, Japan, is a UNESCO World Heritage site and was built

around the 12th century.

During a dig, archaeologists discovered four copper coins that, at first, they took for

a hoax.

One of the coins bears the image of the Roman Emperor Constantine I and has since been dated

to 300 to 400 AD.

Another shows a helmeted soldier wielding a shield in one hand and stabbing an enemy

with a spear in the other.

Since that initial find, excavation has yielded another six coins, which may date back to

the Ottoman Empire in the late 17th century.

The find baffles archaeologists because of the lack of direct links to Europe.

History tells us that the castle had commercial relationships with China and other Asian countries,

so it’s possible the ancient Roman coins found their way to Katsuren through that route

although it would be pretty surprising!

7.

The Seaton Down Hoard

In 2014, an amateur metal detectorist unearthed one of the largest hoards of Roman coins ever

found in Britain.

Laurence Egerton discovered 22,000 copper-alloy coins in Seaton, East Devon, near a field

where a Roman villa had been excavated.

Egerton took up metal detecting seven years prior to his find and the best he ever found

were some old shotgun cartridges.

At first, he only found two small coins on top of the ground.

His metal detector indicated iron but Egerton said his instincts told him there might be

something more.

After digging, he came upon two iron ingots but the shovel full underneath them didn’t

contain dirt but coins.

Now called the Seaton Down Hoard, experts believe a soldier or private individual buried

them for safekeeping.

For whatever reason, they never returned to collect the coins.

The coins would have made up a few month’s wages for a soldier.

Today, though, they are worth tens of thousands of dollars.

Egerton was so concerned about theft that for three days, after archaeologists went

home for the night, he camped out in his car to protect the dig site.

The Roman coins date back to 4th century and contain the representation of Emperor Constantine,

the members of his family, his predecessors, and successors.

6.

Swiss Cherry Orchard Find

In 2015, a stash of more than 4,000 bronze and silver coins is believed to have been

buried some 1,700 years ago in what is today a cherry orchard in Aargau, Switzerland.

Weighing around 15kg (33lb), the local farmer discovered the coins after spotting something

shiny in a molehill.

Since a Roman settlement was discovered in the nearby town of Frick, just a few months

before, the farmer suspected the coins might be of Roman origin and contacted the regional

archaeological service.

After months of excavation, 4,166 coins were found in excellent condition.

The regional archaeological service called the coin trove one of the biggest such finds

in Swiss history.

Some of the coins date from AD 274 and the rule of Emperor Aurelian while other coins

come from the time of Emperor Maximian in 294.

Swiss archaeologist Georg Matter, who worked on the excavation, said what they found within

the first three days "exceeded all expectations by far".

5.

Rare Gold Coin in Galilee

A woman, named Laurie Rimon, saw something shiny while hiking in Galilee, Israel with

friends in March 2016.

It was a 2000 years old coin, bearing the image of Emperor Augustus.

The coin dates back to 107 AD, after the Roman destruction of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem,

and was minted by Emperor Trajan as a series of coins to honor his predecessors.

Emperor Augustus reined from 27 BC to AD 14 and was considered divine after his death.

In fact, the coin refers to Augustus as “Divine Augustus”.

The coin is extremely rare, with only one other known to exist.

Rimon, from a kibbutz in northern Israel, turned it over to the Israel Antiquities Authority.

No one is sure why this coin was in Eastern Galilee.

It would have been very valuable in its time period and too valuable for everyday use,

sort of like buying a soda with a hundred dollar bill.

Therefore, it may have been part of a larger collection of coins but no more have been

found.

4.

Viking Coins in Belfast

In May 2016, a treasure hunter named Brian Morton discovered two extremely rare Viking

silver coins near Newcastle in County Down, Ireland.

The discovery of the Hiberno-Manx silver coins were a first for Northern Ireland, with less

than a handful found anywhere on the island during the last four decades.

Morton was searching on farmland with his metal detector but he said he had not been

looking for anything specific.

Morton found them under about a layer of mud.

The coins were mainly circulated in the Isle of Man and perhaps Scotland during the eleventh

century and are 93% silver.

They could have ended up in the area after being taken during a Viking raid on a nearby

monastery at Maghera, or they could have been the result of a trade or strategic link with

the Isle of Man and southeast Ulster.

A former curator at the Ulster Museum speculated that they were dropped by someone passing

rather than being deliberately hidden.

Coins were not used in Ireland before the Viking period and silver was the main form

of currency.

The coins were sent to the British Museum for independent valuation and the money from

auction will be split between Morton and landowner, which was also the case of the Wesley Carrington

find.

3.

Large Hoard in Spain

In April 2016, construction workers on a site in the Andalusian town of Tomares, in Seville

province of Spain, uncovered 19 amphorae containing bronze Roman coins.

Amphorae are a type of Roman jug.

The workers made the find while digging a ditch to install electricity to a park.

The coins from the amphorae weighed in at more than 1,300 pounds (590kg) and date to

the 3rd century A.D.

What makes the find so spectacular is the sheer size.

Ana Navarro, head of the Archaeology Museum in Seville, said each amphora weighed so much,

a single person couldn’t have moved one alone.

Ten of the jugs were broken open while the trench was being dug.

The initial hypothesis is that the coins were to be used to pay taxes to the Roman Empire.

They were all in perfect condition because they were newly minted and never put into

circulation.

Care was taken to make sure there were no other surprises waiting in the dirt before

construction crews restarted their work.

2.

The Saddle Ridge Hoard

In 2014, a couple in California walking their dog on their property noticed a rusted can

sticking out of the hillside.

They dug it out with a stick and carried the can home.

The cans aren’t the interesting part.

The interesting part is the fact that there was something inside the cans.

They went back to the site to find more.

What was in them?

A treasure trove of rare gold coins dating from 1847 to 1894, which have been valued

at $11 million.

One coin alone is worth $15,000 on its own and another has been valued at more than $1

million because of its rarity.

The collection consists of five dollar gold pieces, ten dollar gold pieces, and twenty

dollar double eagles.

Paper money was illegal in California until the 1870s, making it extremely rare to find

any coins from before that period.

Additionally, most of the coins are in mint condition.

Whoever stashed them did so immediately after they were minted.

Don Kagin, a numismatist who handled the sale and marketing of the coins, valued them.

Most of the coins were minted at the San Francisco Mint, according to Kagin.

What isn’t clear is how they were obtained or who hid them, though theories abound.

Some people have linked the coins to stagecoach bandit Black Bart, outlaw Jesse James, and

a theft at the San Francisco Mint.

However, none of the theories has panned out.

1.

Alien Coins

A set of coins was found during a house renovation in Egypt depicting an alien head and a spaceship.

Another coin shows the head of an extraterrestrial being with huge eyes and bald head.

One of the coins has “OPPORTUNUS Adest” carved on the back, Latin for “it’s here

in due time”.

If aliens actually did create these coins, why would they speak to ancient Egyptians

in Latin?To many this set of ancient coins is proof that aliens visited the Earth thousands

of years ago.

Many websites are pointing to Mysterious Earth as the source of breaking this story of the

alien coins and there is not much information as to these mysterious findings.

The letters around the alien head appear to be in Greek.

Another 17th century French token that was used for counting has an unusual circular

entity that looks like a flying saucer.

Some argue that this represents the Biblical Ezekiel’s wheel which they claim is the

Bible’s tale of a UFO encounter.

UFO Sightings Daily says that the token is proof that UFO sightings were so common in

ancient France that they were inscribed on coins.

For those of you that are skeptical, there could be another explanation.

Some of these coins can be examples of “hobo nickels”.

For example in the mid-1700s people would change the images on the softer metal coins.

Amateur engravers in the United States would carve out a woman seated on a toilet.

The copper-nickel Buffalo nickel was a popular coin that people would creatively carve out,

usually hobos riding on trains that had a lot of free time.

This hobby continued into the 1980’s with people carving out all kinds of things, including

aliens.

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