Intrigued Construction Workers Find Jars Filled With Ancient Coins

It’s astonishing to stumble upon old things.

Old And Gold

European cities are probably the best places to find some incredible things of old age.

Men At Work

Construction workers were installing a waterline in Tomares near Seville, Spain when they came across something unfamiliar.

Digging A Ditch

The construction workers were excavating as they dug a ditch to install the line when they found a collection of some very interesting objects in the dirt.

Some Storage Jars

They pulled it up and realized there were 19 storage jars filled with coins weighing more than 1300 pounds in total.

Something Old

Ana Navarro, the head of Seville’s archaeology department said that “It is a unique collection and there are very few similar cases, the majority were newly minted and some of them probably were bathed in silver, not just bronze.”

Its Worth

Ana estimated that the haul of coins was worth several million euros and said, “I could not give you an economic value, because the value they really have is historical and you can’t calculate that.”

Payment For Service

The experts believe that the Roman coins were used to pay taxes or that they were about to be given to soldiers as payment for their service.

Work Got Paused

The waterline construction was stopped for a while when the coins that feature Maximian and Constantine inscriptions were found.

Watch the video below to see the trove of Roman coins that were found in Spain.

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