Record-breaking haul from Gaul discovered at farm in Brittany - Independent Online Edition > Europe: "The largest treasure trove of pre-Roman, Gaulish money ever to be found has been discovered in central Brittany.
The 545 coins – each worth thousands of euros to collectors but priceless to historians and archaeologists – could overturn much of the received wisdom about the complexity, and wealth, of pre-Roman Celtic society in France. Why was such enormous wealth, a king's ransom at the time, buried in the grounds of a large Gaulish farm 40 miles south of Saint-Brieuc in the first century BC? Why was the hoard never recovered?"
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It's quite obvious: Pirates!
Jack Sparrow strikes again.
Most likely to keep it out of the hands of old Gaius Julius and his Romans who would take anything that wasn't nailed down... and a lot of stuff that was too. Or the Germans - the French are always hiding things from the Germans.
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