More than 30,000 large bronze coins dating back to the ... These turned out to be “follis”—Roman bronze or copper coins also later used as Byzantine currency. Based on their weight, the ...

[Related: These ‘fake’ ancient Roman coins might actually be real.] Authorities described the large, bronze coins (known as follis) found near the town of Arzachena “in an exceptional and ...

and a bronze featuring an image of the emperor Valens from A.D. 364-367. The coins came to light during an ongoing excavation of what appears to be a large Roman building located near Longis Bay ...

A collection of 501 Roman coins dating back to 69AD are due ... The collection includes a number of silver Denarii The silver and bronze coins were produced between the reigns of Emperors ...

A diver exploring the waters off Sardinia in Italy has discovered tens of thousands of Roman-era bronze coins hidden ... a type of large coin used in the Roman and Byzantine empires, were minted ...

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 ...

The 1,850-year-old bronze Roman coin found in Israel's waters is seen ... Rather, his great strengths were in his skilled administration of the large empire, a profitable economy with a massive ...

Most of the identified coins are antoniniani, the official silver coin in the Roman Empire during the third century CE, although they mostly consisted of bronze ... such a large treasure outside ...

He said: "I found this 1900-year-old Roman coin in a County Durham field today. "After the silver denarius, the large bronze sestertius is perhaps the second most commonly recognized coin of the ...