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Coin of the ‘emperor’ Sponsian, currently in The Hunterian, University of Glasgow, UK, catalogue number GLAHM:40333 (Pearson et al., 2022, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0) (CN) — Ancient Roman coins were ...
A haul of coins from halfway across the world turned up on an archaeological site in Japan. Exactly how they got there is a fascinating mystery. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she ...
"It's an exceptional find." Archaeologists in northern Spain recently came across the largest trove of Roman-era coins ever ...
Study of ancient coins sheds new light on Roman financial crisis. ... with coins that had been pure silver before 90BC cut with up to 10 per cent copper five years later. ...
The 10 copper coins were unearthed in December 2013 at the 12th-15th century Katsuren ... an ancient Japanese capital near Kyoto. ... size and weight match typical Roman and Ottoman coins, ...
The hoard contained 2,733 coins, including "silver denarii minted between 32 BC and 235 AD," and antoniniani, or silver and copper-alloy coins, made sometime between 215 AD and 270 AD.
Two ancient Roman coins found by metal detectorists. ... The coins were identified as Lithuanian copper shillings minted between 1660 and 1668.
The copper and bronze coins date from the third to fifth centuries A.D. ... La Cuesta cave, where a badger helped dig up 209 ancient Roman coins, is in the Asturias region of northwestern Spain.
Why the coins in your pocket make you a Roman Over 2,000 years after it was first struck, the denarius remains embedded in our cultural and linguistic life Save ...
Two amateur free divers have found one of the largest collections of Roman coins in Europe off the east coast of Spain. Luis Lens and César Gimeno were diving off the island of Portitxol in ...
TOKYO — The eyes of a visiting archaeologist lit up when he was shown the 10 tiny, rusty discs that had sat unnoticed in storage for two and a half years at a dig on a southern Japan island.