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The largest collection of Roman coins found in Spain is now on exhibit. The museum display features 50,000 ancient coins from ...
A Roman silver coin hoard worth almost the same as a legionary's monthly wage in the 2nd Century has been uncovered by a ...
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 ...
A collection of ancient Roman coins amassed by a former Latin teacher from Connecticut was sold at auction for over $1 million this week. Carol Ross' interest in ancient Roman currency and history led ...
One of the coins in the hoard was a gold aureus of Claudius, the very emperor who led the invasion of Britain. That connection made the find even more special. It's heavy and a beautiful coin, and has ...
A recent study published in the journal Vegueta reveals how counterfeit coins were key to sustaining the economy in the final ...
Ancient Roman gold and silver coins were found in 2019 by a metal detectorist in Suffolk. Years later, the coins made an impressive showing at auction, earning the finder thousands.
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 ...
In ancient Rome, the average adult male ate two pounds of grain a day in the form of porridge or bread. The standard measure ...
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 ...
Digging into the chalky orange-brown soil of western Germany, archaeologists exposed the ruins of an ancient Roman military camp. Their finds were plentiful but typical — until they uncovered a very ...
Glenn Manning was only on his second metal detecting search ever when his machine pinged on two Roman-era swords in the ...