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1,800-year-old 'piggy banks' full of Roman-era coins unearthed in French village
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Two jugs, 38kg and 50kg of coins! Holy shit, that's thousands of them. So jelly. Nice that they were found by actual archeologists. Hopefully we'll see the results in musea soon.
Even the silver alone is valuable. 88kg * 1600 euros per kg = 140 000 euros.
...were you hidden in one of those, too?
Probably a lot of dirt mixed in with that.
I want to believe they took that into account, before saying it's 38+50kg of coins, but fair point.
Just want to say the English plural of museum is museums ๐ If you wanted to use the Latin plural for some reason, notice that you would need locative plural, not nominative! Best just keep to English eh