Archaeologists in France Dig Up a Jar Packed With Tens of Thousands of 1,800-Year-Old Roman Coins

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• fubarx@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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• baahb@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  *jar" doesn’t really seem like the correct work for 10,000 anything unless its rice?

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  • Damage@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s probably a translation thing. English probably got the word Jar from French but uses it in a slightly different way.

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  • lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    “Jar” originally could be used for larger containers too, like amphorae. It’s just nowadays people “defaulted” it to those small glass containers with (usually metal) lids.

    …I want a jar of cookies. In the old sense of the word.

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• four@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  They found my swear jar, fuck

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  • cm0002@lemy.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    :O

    Another roman coin for the swear jar

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• wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Welp, there goes the value of my collection. Thanks, Science! 🤌🏼

  (^/s)

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• TIEPilot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This hoard won’t be sold on Crust Romans, I really wish I had bought more when they had so much inventory.

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• HAL_9_TRILLION@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Fuck the comment section on that site is cancer.

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  • lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It shouldn’t be so bad… right?
    /me checks comments
    Holy fuck. Yes, it’s cancer. Almost as bad as Reddit.

    On a lighter side, while checking the comments, I found this link in the site, with a blocking game from 200 CE. Played it a bit against the CPU, and it seems fun.

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    • fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      How could a comment section about some coins found in a pot turn into comment cancer?

      [Checks comments]

      Oh. I see. It turns out our calendar system is “woke”, “patriot Christians” are an “oppressed minority” and archeology is “theft from hard-working private landowners”.

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  • Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    First comment with the (probably from the US) dude confidently being wrong about french law regarding archeological finds is pretty entertaining.

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• WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  They never got around to putting them in those paper sleeves?

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• WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  How effing big was that jar to hold so many coins?

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• Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  But were there any pickled eggs?

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  • Zier@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Century eggs.

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    • somethingsnappy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Multi millennium eggs.

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• yellowfattybean@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  no-oil dibs

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• guyjantic@infosec.exchange@infosec.exchange ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  @cm0002 I was legitimately nervous going into that last word.

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