<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/4b9daeb4-1d35-4e71-b0ad-a705aa14847f/D30BFEA6-B5F1-4572-A0F8-99ACA63F5722/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081113/ap_on_sc/eu_netherlands_celtic_coins_2" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081113/ap_on_sc/eu_netherlands_celtic_coins_2" style="font-size: 11px;">news.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081113/ap_on_sc/eu_netherlands_celtic_coins_2"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news.yahoo.com/img/02754268-2C6C-4A18-B5D7-96EA22CD8937" alt="This hand out image made available by Amsterdam's Free University or VU and the" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081113/ap_on_sc/eu_netherlands_celtic_coins_2"><P>AMSTERDAM, Netherlands – A hobbyist with a <SPAN id="lw_1226611395_0" class="yshortcuts">metal detector</SPAN> struck both gold and silver when he uncovered an important cache of ancient Celtic coins in a cornfield in the southern Dutch city of <SPAN id="lw_1226611395_1" class="yshortcuts">Maastricht</SPAN>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081113/ap_on_sc/eu_netherlands_celtic_coins_2"><P>Archaeologists say the trove of 39 gold and 70 <SPAN id="lw_1226611395_2" class="yshortcuts">silver coins</SPAN> was minted in the middle of the first century B.C. as the future Roman ruler <SPAN id="lw_1226611395_3" class="yshortcuts">Julius Caesar</SPAN> led a campaign against Celtic tribes in the area.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081113/ap_on_sc/eu_netherlands_celtic_coins_2"><P>After posting a photo of the coin on a Web forum, he was told it was a rare find. The following day he went back and found another coin.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081113/ap_on_sc/eu_netherlands_celtic_coins_2"><P>Both coin types have triple spirals on the front, a common Celtic symbol.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081113/ap_on_sc/eu_netherlands_celtic_coins_2"><P>The two other known caches of Eburones coins have been found in neighboring Belgium and <SPAN id="lw_1226611395_6" class="yshortcuts">Germany</SPAN>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081113/ap_on_sc/eu_netherlands_celtic_coins_2"><P>Maastricht city spokeswoman Carla Wetzels said the value of the coins is not known — their worth is primarily historical. The Belgian cache of similar size was estimated at around 175,000 euros ($220,000).</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D30BFEA6-B5F1-4572-A0F8-99ACA63F5722/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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