ROMAN COINS UNEARTHED.
. A workman who was digging a trench for a water main in Croydon recently felt his pick smash through something which examination proved to bo two earthenware pots filled with coins.
He immediately 4 ook part of his find to the authorities at the Town Hall, and steps were at once taken to prevent any loss of the coins still remaining in the trench. The earth that had been removed was carefully sifted. In all, some three thousand seven hundred bronze coins were recovered, together with the fragments of the two round pots in which they had lain! At the British Museum .hey were later on pronounced to have been struck between the years 537 and 350 A.]); A number of them appear to have one time been gilded, for "when cleaned with acid flakes of gilt were loosened. Though quite green with age, the coins are in excellent preservation, the various designs having been skilfully executed. It is understood that the Crown cannot claim them as " treasure trove," for that peculiar right exists only in the case of discoveries of gold and silver. The coins will be deposited in the Town Hall Museum.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XL, Issue 12278, 23 May 1903, Page 4 (Supplement)
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197ROMAN COINS UNEARTHED. New Zealand Herald, Volume XL, Issue 12278, 23 May 1903, Page 4 (Supplement)
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