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A coin issued by Gaius Caesar - also known as Caligula - decorated with a portrait of the Empress Agrippina and dated to A.D. 37-38 sold for about $9,295, according to the BBC.Another coin, issued ...
With excavation now complete after four year of work, researchers plan to study a hoard that features gold coins minted between 364 A.D. and 408 A.D. depicting the profiles of nine different Roman ...
Unlike most modern coins, Roman coins had (at least in the early centuries) significant intrinsic value. However, while the gold and silver issues contained precious metals, the value of a coin could be slightly higher than its precious metal content, so they were not, strictly speaking, equivalent to bullion .
Archaeologists recently concluded their excavation of an area in Luxembourg that contained a hoard of 141 ancient Roman coins, now worth six figures in modern U.S. dollars.
The Thornbury Hoard is a hoard of 11,460 copper alloy Roman coins, mainly radiates and nummi, dating from 260 to 348, found in the back garden of Ken Allen in Thornbury, South Gloucestershire, England while digging a pond in March 2004. It was described as the "third largest of its kind" found in Great Britain. [1] [2]
A solidus of Arcadius (r. 383–408) from the Mediolanum mint, of similar type to those found in the St Albans hoard. The St Albans Hoard is a large hoard of late Roman gold coins found by a metal detectorist in a field near St Albans, Hertfordshire, England in 2012.