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Afghanistan: 20,000 gold coins found
Wow, what a find! At least bin laden & co. didn't get their greasy hands
on it. I'm a firm believer that things come in threes... 20,000 gold coins dug up in afghanistan, 20,000 gold coins soon to be brought up from the USS Tallahassee.. and 20,000 gold coins the conquistadors buried around Tucson soon to be discovered by me 'n my metal detector. ~AZ 'I have a dream' Rider~ |
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~AZ Rider~ wrote:
Wow, what a find! At least bin laden & co. didn't get their greasy hands on it. I'm a firm believer that things come in threes... 20,000 gold coins dug up in afghanistan, 20,000 gold coins soon to be brought up from the USS Tallahassee.. and 20,000 gold coins the conquistadors buried around Tucson soon to be discovered by me 'n my metal detector. ~AZ 'I have a dream' Rider~ LOL!!! Alan 'the real stash is in Tennessee' |
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Alan 'the real stash is in Tennessee' Now.. that hasn't been proven yet g AZ 'takes in _most_ of what he reads' Rider |
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~AZ Rider~ wrote:
Alan 'the real stash is in Tennessee' Now.. that hasn't been proven yet g AZ 'takes in _most_ of what he reads' Rider Well it was there the last time Congress made them open up! But I don't think they stopped to count it all. Alan 'and it was *after* Goldfinger' |
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"R. Vail" wrote:
= Afghans Uncover Lost Treasure By Jason Burke The Observer - UK 10-19-3 = It lay hidden for 2,000 years in Afghanistan, eluded the Taliban and escaped dozens of adventurers and bounty hunters. Now the Bactrian hoard, one of the world's greatest archaeological collections, has been found. = President Hamid Karzai discovered the 20,000 gold coins and artefacts, worth tens of millions of pounds, in a sealed vault under the main palace in the capital, Kabul, after ordering it to be opened earlier this year. = No one expected it to contain the treasure, dating from Alexander the Great's conquest of Afghanistan in 327BC. The vault was thought to hold =A360 million of bullion hidden by the state bank more than a decade ago. 'We opened one box and saw the gold,' Karzai said. 'Everything is safe and in its place.' = Ashraf Ghani, the Finance Minister, said the treasure was probably the most important collection of antiquities in the world outside Egypt. = It lay in six tombs under the grassy wastes of northern Afghanistan until it was excavated in 1978 by a Soviet archaeologist on the eve of Moscow's invasion of the country, and was hailed as one of the greatest, and most valuable, archaeological discoveries of all time. It includes a collapsible gold crown, a solid gold pendant of Aphrodite and a dagger studded with scores of jewels. = Ghani said the vault had not been opened for decades despite efforts by the Taliban, who ruled Kabul from 1996 to 2001, torturing staff to reveal the code to get at it. 'They were beaten almost senseless but did not reveal it,' he said. = The surprise find is a boost for Afghanistan, where reconstruction has been progressing slowly and conditions for most people are still very bad. = A boost for Afghanistan? I wonder if this is this meant to suggest that the Afghanis will or should now sell these newfound relics to defray the costs of rebuilding their infrastructure? Otherwise, I fail to see how this fantastic discovery will improve the conditions of the people. Bruce "would be glad to help for merely one of those gold coins....that one over there." |
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom DeLorey" Newsgroups: rec.collecting.coins Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 11:14 AM Subject: Afghanistan: 20,000 gold coins found (~AZ Rider~) wrote in message ... Wow, what a find! At least bin laden & co. didn't get their greasy hands on it. I'm a firm believer that things come in threes... 20,000 gold coins dug up in afghanistan, 20,000 gold coins soon to be brought up from the USS Tallahassee.. and 20,000 gold coins the conquistadors buried around Tucson soon to be discovered by me 'n my metal detector. ~AZ 'I have a dream' Rider~ What steamship sank in Afghanistan??????? Was it the one they showed in the desert at the beginning of "Close Encounters Of The Numismatic Kind?" . Inquiring minds want to know. Tom DeLorey Lol! Did they all sing and make hand gestures and say that last night a Spanish Pillar Dollar came out and sang to them? Alan 'Spielberg Cent' |
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