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I Found a Hoard of 748 Roman and Iron Age Coins
I found my first Roman coin when I was 16. It was a sestertius of Marcus Aurelius. Finding that coin was a magical moment. I had found it near a pond, or more accurately, a type of spring ...
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Copper, bronze, or brass Sestertius of Titus, 21.83 g.
The bird's-eye view of the Colosseum on the reverse of this sestertius of Titus ... Mattingly and E.A. Sydenham, The Roman Imperial Coinage II: Vespasian to Hadrian (London 1926) 110; P.V. Hill, The ...