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FideliTrade offers insured storage for 0.75% yearly of your hoard's value; Monex of Newport Beach, Calif. sells the same for 25 cents per ounce per month.
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See The History Blog for further information on the Bactrian hoard's visit to the U.S.
Archive 2008-05-01 Jan 2008
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No backing down: A group of 100 local clergy condemned the school hoard's document for attempting "to raise homosexual behavior to an acceptable level."
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See The History Blog for further information on the Bactrian hoard's visit to the U.S.
The Key-Holders: Guarding Priceless Cultural Treasures with Their Lives Jan 2008
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Some of the hoard's silver denarii, equivalent to pennies in Roman Britain, show a portrait of Antoninus Pius of Caracalla (A.D. 198-217) on one side and the emperor as a charioteer on the other.
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Archaeologist Malcolm Bell, who directs American excavations at Morgantina, gives his account of the hoard's discovery and the subsequent investigation.
The Looting of Italy 1998
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When they can catch the wind and make it give up its secrets, when they can charm from sword Silence the tale of the blood which it has drunk throughout the generations, when they can call back the dead saints from heaven and stretch them anew within the torture-pit, then and not before, they will win knowledge of the hoard's hiding-place from the lips of the witch of
Lysbeth, a Tale of the Dutch Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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He had neither wife nor children, all for the hoard's sake; but while the hoard was there, to be handled any hour, he regretted nothing.
Bessie Costrell Humphry Ward 1885
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Silver spoons, jewellery, plates and tooth-picks all speak vividly of the hoard's late-Roman owners
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This, too, has become part of the hoard's context - a direct link to identifiable individuals.
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