About 5.6 tons of ancient coins have been unearthed from under a residential house in Fuliang county of Jingdezhen city in East China's Jiangxi province.
A box of ancient coins is unearthed from under a residential house in Fuliang county of Jingdezhen city
in East China's Jiangxi province [Credit: VCG]
in East China's Jiangxi province [Credit: VCG]
Then, the news spread, and villagers believed the place where the coins were found used to belong to a landlord more than 1,000 years ago, based on local folk tales.
Boxes of ancient coins are unearthed from under a residential house in Fuliang county of Jingdezhen city
in East China's Jiangxi province [Credit: VCG]
in East China's Jiangxi province [Credit: VCG]
Archaeologists soon came, and the excavation was completed on Oct 22. About 5.6 tons of ancient coins have been unearthed, nearly 300,000 pieces in total.
The coins could be dated back to the Song Dynasty (960-1279), making the coins more than 800 years old, archaeologists concluded.
Ancient coins unearthed from under a residential house in Fuliang county of Jingdezhen city
in East China's Jiangxi province [Credit: jxnews]
in East China's Jiangxi province [Credit: jxnews]
Feng Ruqin, curator of Fuliang Museum, said the coins must have been collected by a folk organization and that the coins' value was small — it had nothing to do with the local landlord.
The follow-up work, including rust cleaning, weighing and categorizing, as well as academic research of these coins, will take two or three years, Feng said.
Source: China Daily [October 27, 2017]
The follow-up work, including rust cleaning, weighing and categorizing, as well as academic research of these coins, will take two or three years, Feng said.
Source: China Daily [October 27, 2017]
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