Archaeologists in France Dig Up a Jar Packed With Tens of Thousands of 1,800-Year-Old Roman Coins
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*jar" doesn't really seem like the correct work for 10,000 anything unless its rice?
It's probably a translation thing. English probably got the word Jar from French but uses it in a slightly different way.
Jug
Welp, there goes the value of my collection. Thanks, Science! 🤌🏼
^(/s)^
This hoard won't be sold on Crust Romans, I really wish I had bought more when they had so much inventory.
Fuck the comment section on that site is cancer.
How could a comment section about some coins found in a pot turn into comment cancer?
[Checks comments]
Oh. I see. It turns out our calendar system is "woke", "patriot Christians" are an "oppressed minority" and archeology is "theft from hard-working private landowners".
First comment with the (probably from the US) dude confidently being wrong about french law regarding archeological finds is pretty entertaining.
Also the one throwing a fit about "CE" vs "AD" notation for years is pretty great
But were there any pickled eggs?
Century eggs.
Multi millennium eggs.
They never got around to putting them in those paper sleeves?
They found my swear jar, fuck
>:O
Another roman coin for the swear jar
How effing big was that jar to hold so many coins?