Don't you just wonder what story lies behind these coins? I would be surprised if this represents the life savings of a blacksmith in roman times...

That is very likely.

Unlikely, I think. Anybody with 4,500 coins in those days would have been relatively wealthy.
Maybe they already had horseracing and betting/gambling then?

Or maybe he robbed someone.

... and they caught him and tortured him, but he died before he could reveal where the loot was. Could be the start (or the ending) of a nice historical novel.

You have good ideas, rambler.

I like to think so too! But as you know from my long-winded comments, and as you can see from the fact that I made one spelling and one punctuation mistake in the last sentence of that last comment (now edited out), I would not be a popular or succesful author. If I was famous, somebody could ghost-write with me, but I'm not, so there goes that idea.

Well, your spelling and punctuation is almost perfect, and it's only human to make some mistakes. I doubt any professional writer writes perfectly.

Thanks! I write a lot of reports and especially letters, but I'm actually better at editing other people's efforts, hehheh! It's so much easier to spot mistakes than to avoid making them myself....

In downtown Lisbon there's a bank with glass floors where you can see some Roman ruins that were found when they were doing some construction work on the building. There's also an underground access in the middle of one of the streets where people line up, waiting for hours and hours to get a chance to go down there and take a first-hand look. I bet loads of Roman ruins are still under the ground of most European cities, just waiting for someone to dig.
They seem to keep finding Roman ruins mainly because everything they did was made to last. And it still there, so I guess they succeeded.