Found in 2016, but a very interesting find.
If the coins really weighed 1300 lbs in Tetrarchic folles it was a very high value
hoard.
Some rough calculations: 1300 lbs = 590 kg = 59,000 folles (at 10g/follis) = 1,475,000 denares communes (at 25 dc/follis, assuming we are after 301 AD, half that if before).
One and half million dc was a huge amount of
money and would make one think of a
military pay chest if it wasn't found in an
area (Seville,
Spain) with no real
military presence at this time. There was only one legion in
Spain at this time (
VII Gemina) but it was way up
north at Leon.
SC
