Celtic gold/silver cache!!

bottlecaps

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• Nov 14, 2008

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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands – A hobbyist with a metal detector struck both gold and silver when he uncovered an important cache of ancient Celtic coins in a cornfield in the southern Dutch city of Maastricht

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081113/ap_on_sc/eu_netherlands_celtic_coins_2

 

GeorgiaJay

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• Nov 14, 2008

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Yeah...that is amazing cache!
I just read the story in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Newspaper.
What a killer find!
That is funny. He said that he considers his metal detecting hobby a meditative hobby and not an obsession.
Mine would definitely be an obsession.

 

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Lunarpancake

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• Nov 14, 2008

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i was just going to post this find ...beat me to it!

 

agbkyle

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• Nov 14, 2008

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Amazing. The stuff that dreams are made of.