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Thank you for this information. This is clearly another small
lot of rare coins which should be returned to the ground so that they may
be found again by some future generation of archaeologists who will have the
money to study them and be able to properly understand the relationship and
importance of the playground to the coins. This find would appear to the
novice to clearly be the forerunner to our modern arcades. Those
Chinese are so clever! Or, perhaps they should quickly put them in secure
storage, after a couple of photos in the basement of some museum about to fall
down until they gain the expertise and money to study them. Since
everything is being destroyed or found and looted by today’s society
tomorrows archaeologists may only have the remains of the fallen down museums
to locate in the future. I hope Google has all the coordinates of the worlds museums
in some sort of permanent file accessible only by archaeologists so their
future employability remains viable. I can see the look of glee on the
face of the archaeologists who finely refind all these treasures all on the
same basement layer and have it moved to another storage area for later study
and research. I am almost overcome with joy just thinking about it.
Michael Moriarty
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[mailto:Unidroit-L@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Dave Welsh
Sent: Sonntag, 14. Juni 2009 20:27
To: Unidroit-L
Subject: [Unidroit-L] Two tons of ancient coins found
Archaeologists
unearth two tonnes of ancient coins in China
http://www.calcuttanews.net/story/508309
Archaeologists have
unearthed more than two tonnes of ancient coins dating back to as early as the
Tang Dynasty (618-907) on a playground of a primary school in Shaanxi Province,
northwest China.
According to Zhao
Aiguo, director of the cultural relics protection and tourism bureau in Liquan
County, Shaanxi, the coins were found when workers were excavating the grounds
for construction of another building. They reported their discovery to
the bureau and soon more than 70 archaeologists, officials and police were sent
to the site.
...
Zhao said they were
in circulation for more than 750 years during the Tang, Song (960-1279) and
Yuan (1279-1368) Dynasties. The vault measures 1.5 meters in width and length
and one meter in height. It is believed to have been built during the Yuan
Dynasty.
The coins have been
sent to a local museum and archaeologists were counting them. "Because
there were so many, it might take a week to know the exact number and
categories," Zhao said.
The site of the
discovery was part of a temple built by an ancient emperor in memory of his
mother between 180 BC and 157 BC. Zhao cited archaeologists as saying that the
coins might be donations from believers who visited the temple.
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