Credit: Andrew Williams/Norfolk County Council Metal detectorists in the east of England have discovered a cache of Roman silver coins that depict several emperors and even some of their wives.

Four of the coins date to the reign of Marcus Aurelius, who was played by Richard Harris in the first Gladiator film, with the earliest dating from AD166 (above) A hoard of 16 silver Roman coins ...

Another replica was made by Francesco Galluccio ... archeologists recovered a trove of over 5,000 Iron Age and Roman coins, silver bowls, and hundreds of animal bones linked to ceremonial feasts ...