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The obverse features a galley and the name Antony, while the reverse features the name of the particular legion that each issue was intended for (hoard evidence shows that these coins remained in circulation over 200 years after they were minted, due to their lower silver content).
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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 ...
Also found among the Roman coins were 72 gold aurei, dated from 18 B.C. to 47 A.D. Those coins show no signs of wear and likely came from a pile of freshly minted coins, according to the Cultural ...
Larger hoards of Roman coins have been found at Misrata, Libya [31] and reputedly also at Evreux, France (100,000 coins) and Komin, Croatia (300,000 coins). [32] The gold solidi are all close to their theoretical weight of 4.48 g (1 ⁄ 72 of a Roman pound). The fineness of a solidus in this period was 99% gold.
Roman imperial coin, struck c. 241, with the head of Tranquillina on the obverse, or front of the coin, and her marriage to Gordian III depicted on the reverse, or back side of the coin, in smaller scale; the coin exhibits the obverse – "head", or front – and reverse – "tail", or back – convention that still dominates much coinage today.