Construction workers in Spain unearth huge trove of ancient Roman

>>1062605
LOADSAMONEY
SPANIARDS GONNA WOP THEIR WADS

How often do Yuropers find bits of roman remains lying around? Does it ever get annoying having to deal with all the stuff the Romans left behind

>>1062605
So is it some freshly minted taxes that never got paid or something?

>>1062605
This is so weird. Giant jars filled to the brim with cash just left undisturbed and uncollected. How did the Roman Empire just forget it was due a payment from a particular province?

>>1062879
>>1062870
Would the Government move money in jars tho?

Seems like a shady way for the Govt to move money doesn't it?

You can still find buried Confederate treasure.

>>1062605
Nah, a lot of the places where there would have been things to find have been built on in the years since

>>1062886
I can think of lots of reasons not to advertise the fact you are moving/storing a large quantity of cash

>>1062902
Yeah but we're talking about a period where few could read or write. Quietly getting information out about cash deliveries should have been pretty easy in those days.

>>1062879
Tax collection was done by private enterprise, unless something changed later on, and the 4th century was so unstable at parts that is ready to imagine. I'm most interested in knowing when exactly the coins are from, it would

>>1062886
>Would the Government move money in jars tho?
How would you do it, emperor anon?

>>1062886
Maybe as a way to disguise it? But then again a jar of coins would be heavier than a jar of wine, and something a good bandit would notice (very tired and slow donkey-wagon).

>>1062907
I mean its just obviously a good idea not to make it obvious that you are transporting cash. Plus amphorae are good transport vessels anyway

Do people not realize they were used as general purpose containers?

>>1062941
I think its just because they look like you should put liquid in them that confuses people

Also coins used to be transported in barrels and whatnot. It's a relatively easy way to keep tract of how many coins you have if you put them into separate contained of standard numbers rather than just a huge pile.

>>1062911
Well if it was taxes it would be under heavy guard so how would it get lost and forgotten?

If it was under guard you'd want it in something hard for your men to steal from right?

If you're already paying for a bunch of guards why not a better container?

>>1062947
They used them to store grain and all sorts of other things that you could just dump in a pot.

>In the Bronze and Iron Ages amphorae spread around the ancient Mediterranean world, being used by the ancient Greeks and Romans as the principal means for transporting and storing grapes, olive oil, wine, oil, olives, grain, fish, and other commodities. They were produced on an industrial scale until approximately the 7th century AD. Wooden and skin containers seem to have supplanted amphorae thereafter.

Advantages of pots. It does not require trees, just clay. It does not require fancy automated water powered lumber mills or people sawing wooden slats like boxes. They're very quick to form on an industrial scale. Just toss some clay on a pottery wheel and spin them up, then bulk fire them in a kiln.

>>1062958
Tax collection was private and up to the tax collector.

The government wouldn't collect taxes. They would sell contracts to tax collectors. Tax collectors would pay for these contracts. The government gets income from selling contracts. And the collectors make money by collecting taxes.

>>1062973
wew

I imagine that the tax collector of this find died painfully then

>When you gotta tell the Emperor you lost his taxes

>>1062981
I think the government share is what's paid for by the contracts. The actual taxes collected are kept by the collector. It's basically like buying debt

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>>1062860
never , have found super earlier christian stuff in Cork tho
It is nice having history, thats not almost all bad ^_^

>ITT: We ignore OP says the coins were uncirculated
These weren't tax payments, they were buried very shortly after being minted.
Maybe there was some especially bad timing when an attack was imminent right after these were struck. Maybe they were struck specifically to serve as ransom or tribute and were then buried by the recipient, who was himself killed without revealing the location of his horde.

>>1062870
More like rich people hiding all their savings in their backyard

>>1062941
People don't realize that they didn't have cardboard boxes and wooden crates were not durable enough/waterproof

>>1063011
what did you find?

A farm that my grandfather owned when I was a kid was at some point a Native American battleground, I used to find lots of flight arrowheads