Greed

The old possessor makes us tenderly ridiculous in his useless greed: his never recovered fortune did not make him rich, but us.

It was in April 2016. An ordinary morning, one more public work in a town on the outskirts of Seville, Tomares. The excavator hit an obstacle, something sounded broken, a worker looked into the ditch and 19 amphorae with 600 kilos of coins from the 3rd and 4th centuries were seen again. Imagine a Hispano-Roman digging in the rocky ground, carrying the amphorae at night from the cart in which he had transported them, filling the pit. Beyond the very fertility of the Andalusian soil, that land became the richest land in Hispania for the metal of the 22,000 buried coins. Not...

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