Old Spanish Coins Found

[jeff of pa]

The Baltimore Evening Sun​

Thu, Nov 09, 1922 ·Page 28

 

[UnderMiner]

Imagine how many caches there must be if someone stumbled across one 4 feet deep while digging a post hole randomly.

 

[Ryano]

..and near Cincinnati of all places !

 

[bottlebum]

I can only imagine how many there might be in St. Augustine.

 

[UnderMiner]

I can only imagine how many there might be in St. Augustine.

And their contents - silver from the mines of Potosi, massive columbian emeralds, rare pearls from giant pacific oysters , money chain of solid 24k gold - several yards long, doubloons, escudos, pieces of eight, diamonds, rubies, sapphires, all of these things buried potentially within just a few feet of an area walked over by hundreds of people every day.