The article said it was more likely “long term savings” but doesn’t say how much money it represents in relative terms, just an estimate of the number of coins. So it’s not clear if this is capitalistic wealth hoarding or an average person’s retirement fund.
Well it was 1800 years ago so I’m pretty sure capitalism has nothing to do with it at all. But that’s just what we used to call finds like these in archeology. Coin hordes. These kind of finds usually correlate pretty strongly with times of strife
I like it better when they are called hordes.
The article said it was more likely “long term savings” but doesn’t say how much money it represents in relative terms, just an estimate of the number of coins. So it’s not clear if this is capitalistic wealth hoarding or an average person’s retirement fund.
Well it was 1800 years ago so I’m pretty sure capitalism has nothing to do with it at all. But that’s just what we used to call finds like these in archeology. Coin hordes. These kind of finds usually correlate pretty strongly with times of strife