One of Britain's longest Roman roads passed through the region; and the west of Norfolk, in particular, was considered prime ...
Noonans offered the Sapcote hoard in a recent auction, in which all of the coins were purchased by a U.S.-based buyer for ...
The coins are thousands of years old, the Netherlands' Cultural Heritage Agency said in a news release, and are a mix of Roman and British coins. Bunnik, the village where they were buried ...
Coins expert Alice Cullen, from auctioneers Noonans, said: "The Antoninianus was a coin used during the Roman Empire thought ... and declared himself emperor in Britain and northern Gaul." ...
The UK is home to many ancient sites, but few are as fascinating as the abandoned Roman gold mines hidden in the Welsh ...
They were the second most powerful group in southern Britain at the time of the Roman Conquest, they issued and used coins, and had many contacts with France. They probably consisted of a group of ...
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 ...
And coins too the Romans made using coins to buy things popular throughout the whole of Roman Britain, rather than just swapping one thing for another like a sheep for a sword for example.
The gold Roman coin, which is of the emperor Aulus Vitellius ... in Kingswinford in May 2024 and after being sent to the British Museum, then disclaimed, recorded and returned to the finder ...
If it is officially "treasure" then the coins may be turned over to a museum at King's Lynn and the finders and landowners could be compensated. Norfolk was an important part of Roman Britain ...
The most famous ruler featured in the hoard is arguably the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius (reigned from A.D. 161 to 180), while his wife, Faustina II, is portrayed on a coin of her own. Aurelius ...