What is the largest hoard of coins ever found?
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Could be the Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple in India. This news report says $ 22 billion.
However, it is less than a thousand years old.
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The largest find of coins seems to be
San José, is estimated to be worth about $1 billion (£662m) as of 2012, based on the speculation that it had up to 11 million 4-doubloons (11 million 8 escudos gold coins; 11 million coins of 27g of 92% gold totaling 8.8 million troy ounces AGW or $11.5 billion) and many silver coins on board at the time of its sinking, similar to its surviving sister ship, San Joaquín. The silver and gold from the mines of Potosí, Bolivia. San José is called the "Holy Grail of Shipwrecks"
It's not ancient, it's on the bottom of the sea, but it's big and presumably the "largest find of coins to date"!
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I can't find the one you are looking for ("the large find (or finds) which The Independent and Osmund Bopearachchi alluded to") but the Midwest Megahoard is really big. It was found by a coin company called Littletoncoin.
Littleton bought the largest coin hoard ever, holding 1.7 million Indian Head cents and Liberty and Buffalo nickels! Hidden in the walls of a Midwest collector's house, the stash had been out of circulation since the 1950s and '60s. The coins, weighing 7.6 tons, were stored in canvas sacks and 55‑gallon drums.
It's also mentioned on another site. https://preferredcoinexchange.com/numismatic-news/most-notable-coin-hoards/
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I found an article that describes a 7700 pound (3500 kg) hoard of coins in Huoluochaideng, China. Most of the coins are supposed to be more than 2000 years old, although the quantity is not specified in the article:
The coins were found in 3,000-year-old coin pits in the ancient town of Huoluochaideng, Lian Jilin, a researcher with the regional Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, told China's state-run Xinhua news agency.
Most of the hoard was "Huoquan" coins, commonly used in the Han Dynasty from 202 B.C. to A.D. 220, Lian said.
Archaeologists said they also unearthed more than 100 casting molds from the relics of a coin workshop dating to the rule of Emperor Wudi, 156 B.C. to 87 B.C.
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