alt Hacker NewsMost probably the artifact was transferred there in modern times. Once I had found a 2nf century AD Roman coin while playing outside, worth about 200E. If they were transfered in their corresponding time, they would be burried many metres beneath earth surface.
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lostlogin • today at 1:00 AM
The first link in the article is better than the actual article.
They don’t think it a modern loss.
https://greekreporter.com/2026/04/16/ancient-greek-coin-troy...
Berlin specifically has a few meters of soil separating it from that period, but that's not always true. I've excavated millennia-old sites barely centimeters under the surface. Others are buried under meters of soil overnight. There's also natural processes moving things around in the soil (e.g. rabbits, freeze-thaw cycles), and human processes (e.g. tilling).
I wouldn't jump immediately to modern collector, nor does the article.