[Related: Fake ... gold mining outpost, at a time when the empire was beset by civil wars and the borderlands were overrun by plundering invaders.” For much of ancient Roman history, mints made ...

An ancient gold coin long dismissed as a forgery is authentic and depicts a long-lost Roman emperor, according to a new study. The coin depicting the Roman emperor Sponsian was first unearthed in ...

The existence of a Roman emperor, previously dismissed as "fake," has been confirmed with the discovery of an ancient gold ...

2022, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0) (CN) — Ancient Roman coins were imprinted ... in London and colleagues investigated the coins by subjecting them to imaging and spectroscopy tests along with two genuine ...

Luxembourg officials recently announced that an "extremely rare" cache of gold coins from the ... Service (SEDAL)." The coins include depictions of nine Roman emperors who ruled between 364 ...

"We see Roman gold coins being repurposed as pendants, occasionally with very similar suspension loops, but here they've made the whole thing from scratch," Adrian Marsden, a numismatist at the ...

A collection of ancient Roman coins amassed by a former Latin teacher from Connecticut was sold at auction for over $1 ...

Archaeologists in Luxembourg have discovered a lavish 1,700-year-old hoard of Roman gold coins that had been placed ... rare to be able to study an entire ancient monetary deposit in its ...

According to a release from Museums Worcestershire, a trove of 1,368 silver and gold coins from the Iron Age and Ancient Rome were found by an anonymous metal detectorist searching an unnamed area ...

A team of archaeologists recently discovered a hoard of 141 Roman gold ... coins like these three bearing Eugenius’ image are incredibly uncommon. “It is extremely rare to be able to study an ...

Discovering ancient treasure resulted ... finding a Roman hoard has always been on his mind. When he finally detected Roman gold and silver coins, he called the moment "awe-inspiring." ...

The coins are not pure gold, but were also mixed with silver and copper. The metal detectors revealed an ancient treasure trove There were 72 gold Roman coins and 288 silver coins, which are ...