from rare Viking treasure to alien
artifacts here are nine unbelievable
coin discoveries number nine 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 them and told him
that they dated back 1600 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
hone aureus to Gration 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 I've never
found anything they're probably hating
Carrington right now the coins are
estimated to be worth over one thousand
pounds or 128 thousand dollars plans
were made to auction the coins but no
information could be found as to how
much money Carrington received for his
find number 8 Roman coins in Japan in
2013 a discovery was made that still
baffles archaeologists Katherine castle
in Okinawa Island Japan is a unesco
world heritage site it was built around
the 12th century during a dig
archeologists discovered four copper
coins that at first they took for a hoax
one of the coins bears the image of the
Roman Emperor Constantine the first and
has since been dated to 300 or 400 AD
another shows a helmeted soldier
wielding a shield in one hand and
stabbing an enemy with his spear in the
other since that initial
mind 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 from
Japan 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 cats are in through that
route although it would be pretty
surprising number 7 this eaten down
hoard in 2014 an amateur metal
detectorists another one unearthed one
of the largest of Roman coins
ever found in Britain Laurence egerton
discovered 22,000 copper alloy coins in
seaton east Devon near 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 a Curtin 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 town 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 months wages for a
soldier today though they're worth tens
of thousands of dollars a curtain 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
the 4th century and contain the
representation of Emperor Constantine
the members of his family his
predecessors and successors number 6 the
Swiss cherry orchard find in 2015 a
stash of more than 4,000 bronze and
silver coins is believed have been
buried some 1,700 years ago in what is
today a cherry orchard in our GAO's wits
Erland weighing around 15 kilograms 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
you months before the farmer suspected
the coins might be of Roman origin and
he contacted the regional archaeological
service after months of excavation 4166
coins were found in excellent condition
the regional archaeological service
called the Cointreau of one of the
biggest such finds in swiss history some
of the coins date from 274 ad under the
rule of emperor aurelion while other
coins come from the time of Emperor
Maximilian in 290 for Swiss
archaeologist George mater who worked on
the excavation said what they found
within the first three days exceeded all
expectations by far number five rare
gold coin in Galilee a woman named
Laurie Ryman saw something shiny while
hiking in Galilee Israel with friends in
March 2016 it was a two thousand year
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 reigned from 27 BC to 14 AD 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
Ryman from a kibbutz in northern Israel
turned it over to the Israel Antiquities
Authority no one is sure why this coin
was an Eastern Galilei it would have
been very valuable in its time period
and too valuable for everyday use sort
of like buying a soda with $100 bill
therefore it may have been part of a
larger collection of coins but no more
have since been found number 4
Viking coins in Belfast in May 2016 a
treasure hunter named Brian Morton
discovered two extremely rare Viking
silver coins near Newcastle and counting
down Ireland the discovery of the hobart
o 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 11th century and are 93 percent
silver they could have ended up in the
area after being taken during a Viking
raid on a nearby monastery at mogera or
they could have been the result of a
trade or strategic link with the Isle of
Man and southeast Ulster both are quite
intriguing 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 a landowner which was also
the case of the Wesley Carrington pine
that I forgot to mention number three
large hoard in Spain in April 2016
construction workers on a site in the
Andalusian town of Timaeus in Sevilla
province of Spain uncovered 19 amphora
containing bronze Roman coins amphora
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 amphora weighed in at more than
1300 pounds and date to the 3rd century
AD what makes the find so spectacular is
the sheer size at a Novato head of the
archaeology Museum in Sevilla said that
each amphora weighed so much a single
person couldn't have moved one alone 10
of the jugs were broken open while the
trench was being dug up 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 number 2 the
Saddle Ridge hoard in 2014 a couple in
California walking their dog on their
property noticed a rusted cans sticking
out of the hillside they dug it out with
a stick and carried the can home the
cans aren't even 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
been valued at eleven million dollars
one coin alone is worth fifteen thousand
on its own and another has been valued
at more than 1 million dollars because
of its rarity the collection consists of
$5 gold pieces $10 gold pieces and $20
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 Kagan a
numismatist who handled the sale and
marketing of the coins evaluated them
most of the coins were minted at the San
Francisco mint
according to Hagen what isn't clear is
how they were obtained or who hid them
both 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 these theories has panned out
but I'm sure there's plenty of more
options number one 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 a bald head one of
the coins has opportunist a desk 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 too many of this set
of 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's not
much information as to these mysterious
findings the letters around the alien
head appeared 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 1980s
with people carving out all kinds of
things including aliens what do you guys
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