Take a look in our
shop and the
Members' Auction (the links are above). You will see
ancient coins for a
cheap as a few dollars and many nice
denarii for under $200.
The ancients minted a lot of coins. A single
Roman mint may have produced more than 10,000 coins a day and the
Romans sometimes
had many mints operating.
People lost coins in ancient days, just as they do today. But even more significant, because there were no
banks, ancient people often buried their entire savings. If they forgot where they buried their coins or died without telling someone where the coins were buried, the coins stayed in the ground. Huge
hoards containing thousands of coins are discovered every year.
