An amateur metal detectorist discovered a buried hoard of nearly 1,500 Roman coins near Bucharest, Romania. The coins, which ...

The Roman coin hoard may have been buried at the time for safekeeping, which was a common practice in an era when there were ...

"The majority of people living in the Roman empire would have rarely seen a single gold coin, let alone a collection of this many. "They were too high in value to be in common circulation ...