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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 the third and fourth centuries A.D.
The pagan Anglo-Saxons copied a gold Roman coin with Christian imagery, but they didn't do a very good job. Live Science. Anglo-Saxons plagiarized a Roman coin — and it's full of typos.
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.
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 ...
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 Roman coin that is believed to be the first of its kind found in the UK has sold for nearly £5,000. Ron Walters, 76, from Kingswinford, West Midlands, found the coin with his metal detector in ...
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 ...
A coin unearthed by a metal detectorist in a field he had been visiting for more than 20 years is expected to fetch up to £6,000 at auction. Retired builder Paul Capewell described the Roman coin ...
Metal detectorists in the east of England have discovered a cache of Roman silver coins that depict several emperors and even some of their wives.. The most famous ruler featured in the hoard is ...
A team of archaeologists recently discovered a hoard of 141 Roman gold coins dating back to around the Fourth Century CE in northern Luxembourg.According to the National Institute for ...
An 1,955-year-old gold Roman coin has been sold for thousands of pounds at auction. It was unearthed by 76-year-old grandfather Ron Walters, in Dudley in the West Midlands. He finally struck gold ...
A Roman silver coin more than 2,100 years old has been discovered during a dig near an ancient bathhouse. Some 2,000 items - including pottery, weapons, coins and semi-precious stones ...