Showing posts with label Roman coin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Roman coin. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 15, 2020

Giant Skeleton and Roman Coins Found in Jackson, Ohio

 Giant Skeleton and Roman Coins Found in Jackson, Ohio      



Roman Emporer, Scipio Africanus (236–183 BC)

The Holmes County Republican, March 16, 1859

Discovery of a Mysterious Vault
Jackson, Ohio February 21.
     Our village is full of wonder and excitement.  Martin Marker, J. W. Hughes, and Washington Long, in digging a grave in the cemetery near this village, about ten o'clock, this morning, came to a large flat stone about four feet below the surface, which stopped their further progress, until they procured assistance and removed the stone from its resting place of ages when it was found to have closed the entrance to a subterranean vault.  All efforts thus far 3 P. M. ) to enter it with light have proved unsuccessful, on account of the foul air with which it is filled.  By means of a rake, human bone of gigantic size has been raised, and small chard of silver, with coins attached to each end.  The coins, though much defaced by time, have the appearance of those used among the Romans in the days of Scipio Africanus, though there were evident traces of hieroglyphic devices than cannot be deciphered.
       The men at the cemetery have by means of burning straw, made light in the vault and, though none have the courage to enter further than the entrance, it has been discovered that there is, immediately to the west of the opening, a chamber of about ten feet square, with steps dilapidated down its eastern side.  Three other chambers,rs branch out of this; one to the north, one to the south, and the other to the west. We are all curious of course, to know when and by whom these vaults were made and filled.

Tuesday, July 21, 2020

Roman Coin Discovered in Texas Burial Mound

The Daily Herald (Chicago, Ill) December 24, 1976
  Austin, Tex. (UPI) The discovery of a dime-sized piece of metal in an Indian mound is causing some consternation among anthropologists.
   The COIN minted in London in 313-314 A.D., is found so frequently in Europe it is not worth faking, said Dr. John Kroll, assistant professor of classics at the University. It is inscribed on one side with the head of a young emperor wearing the laurel crown and the other side with the sun.  it was worth a nickel in its time and the only about $10.00 today. but Epstein said, "For my purposes, it's invaluable.'

Friday, June 22, 2018

Roman Coin Discovered Within an Illinois Burial Mound

Roman Coin Discovered Within an Illinois Burial Mound




The Washington Herald, March 14, 1913
FIND ROMAN COIN IN INDIAN MOUND IN HANCOCK COUNTY, ILLINOIS  
    
    Chicago, March 13 - An old coin discovered in an Illinois Indian mound in Hancock County, and examined by Dr. Alfred Emerson of the Chicago Art Institute, a famous numismatist, was declared to be either an old Greek or Roman coin.  Dr. Emerson said he had never seen one like it, but that he was certain it was coined in Rome or Greece during the period between 250 B.C. and 250 A.D.
    The discovery of the coin has awakened scientific interest here in the Indian mounds.  It is believed that they may furnish proof that white men were on the American continent 2,000 years agoi, scientists today asserted.

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