A gold Roman coin believed to be the first of its kind ever found in Britain fetched $6,000 after being unearthed by a metal ...
A. Grueber, Coins of the Roman Republic in the British Museum (London 1910), II, 527-530, no. 192; E. A. Sydenham, The Coinage of the Roman Republic (London 1952) 195, no. 1216; M. H. Crawford, Roman ...
This Roman silver denarius coin was one of 5294 British Iron Age and Roman coins excavated at a Late Iron Age shrine near Hallaton, Leicestershire. It has been dated to c. 211 BC, making it ...
Each of the 16 coins is a denarius — the standard Roman coin — and Marsden estimates that the entire horde would have been worth the equivalent of a few hundred dollars at the time. "It's a reasonable ...
A gold Roman coin believed to be the first of its kind ever found in Britain is set to fetch thousands at auction after being ...