Today this article appeared on major internet news sources. The article mentions that "$200,000" were found, but the discovery of a dozen reams of paper or a thousand prints of a work of art in an old car would make no headlines. Where the rarity as well as the quality of a work of art makes it valuable in monetary terms, it seems that money is made valuable simply by governmental regulation. Mammon, in The Faerie Queene, fingers coins no longer in circulation and thus having no exchange value. Mammon's real gold, because it is hoarded and not exchanged, is no more valuable than a wad of counterfeit bills stuffed into a car.
