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The coins are thousands of years old, the Netherlands' Cultural Heritage Agency said in a news release, and are a mix of Roman and British coins. Bunnik, the village where they were buried, was ...
A hoard of Roman coins worth over $125,000 was found during a construction project in central England. ... was buried in a pot and unearthed by members of the public in late 2023, according to the ...
The earliest coins in the hoard were minted 63 AD, during the reign of Nero. [5] 99% of the coins were minted before 167 AD. Only six coins were struck between 193 and 196 AD. The coins weigh between 5.8 and 7.6 gram. [1] 40 Roman emperors and their relatives are depicted on the coins. [1] [3]
[4] [5] The coins date from AD 260 to 348. [6] The coins are made from copper-alloy. The hoard is one of the largest ever found of 4th-century coins in the former Roman empire and consist of coins from the reign of Roman emperor Constantine I and his family in AD 306 and the joint reign of Constantius II and his younger brother Constans, from ...
The Frome Hoard is a hoard of 52,503 Roman coins found in April 2010, by metal detectorist Dave Crisp near Frome in Somerset, England. [1] The coins were contained in a ceramic pot 45 cm (18 in) in diameter, [2] and date from AD 253 to 305. Most of the coins are made from debased silver or bronze. [1]
Photos show the ancient treasures discovered by a team of archaeologists.
One of the rare coins dates to 97 B.C., experts said.
The coin originally weighed about 3.4 grams (3 scruples), meaning that it was half the value of the quadrigatus, a coin weighing 6 scruples that was by this time no longer produced. The victoriatus was made of a more debased silver than the denarius , which was introduced at about the same time.