The coins date back to the Roman Imperial Period, which lasted from 31 BC to 476 AD, making the hoard at least 1,538 years old. The hoard was found with a ceramic vessel that was broken ...

A rare 2,000-year-old Roman coin discovered by a 76-year-old farmer has been sold at auction for £4,700. Ron Walters, from Kingswinford, unearthed the gold coin depicting Emperor Aulus Vitellius ...

A man has shared how he found a coin dating back to 69 AD buried in a field near Dudley. The gold Roman coin is believed to be first of its kind ever found in Britain and is set to fetch thousands at ...

A Roman settlement found ... A collection of silver coins dating to the 3rd century AD was also found. Among them are specimens minted under Empress Julia Soaemias, Maximinus Thrax, Gordian III, ...

The gold Roman coin, which is of the emperor Aulus Vitellius and is believed to have been crafted in AD69, will be the centrepiece of the Specialist Coin auction at Fieldings Auctioneers in ...

Scientists identified a 1,900-year-old Roman sanctuary at Cova de les Dones after finding inscriptions and a coin offering. Photo from A. Ruiz-Redondo, V. Barciela and X. Martorell Deep inside a ...

Amateur archaeologists discovered a gold coin in a field, leading to a full-fledged search that revealed 141 Roman-era gold coins from the late fourth century A.D. The coins stretch across the ...

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A rare Roman coin with an image of Brutus, the assassin of statesman Julius Caesar, has sold at an auction in Switzerland for €1.98 million, according to organiser Numismatica Genevensis.