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Builders were stunned when they stumbled across one of the largest hoards of Roman coins ever found in Britain — worth more than £100,000 (about $126,000). A total of 1,368 Iron Age and Roman ...
New technology helps archaeologists explore the past 03:37. A hoard of Roman coins worth over $125,000 was found during a construction project in central England.
A British man who found a massive cache of ancient Roman gold and silver coins while hunting with a metal detector has a lot more modern currency in his pocket after the treasure was auctioned off for ...
David Dunn, a plumber from Sapcote, Leicestershire, is auctioning off 50 coins that he found while metal detecting in summer 2023. The hoard dates back to Ancient Rome.
Hundreds of Roman-era gold and silver coins were found in a field outside a village in the Netherlands, officials announced ...
Coins Found in Ruins of Roman Fort The solidi—the Latin word for gold coins like these—were uncovered in the ruins of a Roman fort in the village of Holzthum during a series of excavations ...
Luxembourg officials say that a hoard of ancient Roman treasure, worth nearly $318,000 in modern U.S. dollars, has been recently found. The coins feature Eugenius, an illegitimate ruler.
I found lots of sherds of Roman pottery, including fancy dinnerware. One of the coins in the hoard was a gold aureus of Claudius, the very emperor who led the invasion of Britain. That connection ...
More than 30,000 ancient coins found off the coast of Italy 00:50. Hundreds of Roman-era gold and silver coins were found in a field outside a village in the Netherlands, officials announced this ...
Builders were stunned when they stumbled across one of the largest hoards of Roman coins ever found in Britain — worth more than £100,000 (about $126,000). A total of 1,368 Iron Age and Roman ...
This is the third hoard of coins to be found in the area in the past 25 years, according to the BBC. In 2011, two metal detectorists found a clay pot full of 3,784 coins, the BBC said, and in 1999 ...
Also found among the Roman coins were 72 gold aurei, dated from 18 B.C. to 47 A.D. Those coins show no signs of wear and likely came from a pile of freshly minted coins, according to the Cultural ...