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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bart9349, post: 8053279, member: 5682&quot;]Thank you for bringing up this great discovery. I’m surprised about the lack of numismatic insight given by these initial reports.</p><p><br /></p><p>“Archaeologists have found a hoard of Roman-era silver coins buried by the river in the Bavarian city of Augsburg in Germany. In total, it weighs 33 pounds (15 kilograms) and could be the largest single ancient Roman silver hoard ever found in Bavaria.</p><p><br /></p><p>The team was digging at a planned housing site in the Oberhausen district, the oldest part of Augsburg, before builders began the construction work when they found the stash of Roman silver dating to 1st to early 3rd century A.D.”</p><p><br /></p><p>“The coins belong to a wide period from the reign of Emperor Nero in the mid-first century AD to that of Septimius Severus shortly after AD 200. This period covers the reigns of emperors Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, and Marcus Aurelius.</p><p><br /></p><p>Interestingly, the hoard also includes coins from the reign of Emperor Didius Julianus, who was on the throne for only 90 days (March-June 193 AD) after buying it from the Praetorian guard, which had assassinated his predecessor Pertinax. Since he ruled for such a short period, coins issued in his reign are quite rare.”</p><p><br /></p><p>I don’t speak German, but I think this video is related to the find:</p><p><br /></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]yxt2fDrUwpQ[/MEDIA]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I liked these articles, also:</p><p><a href="https://www.sciencetimes.com/amp/articles/34578/20211118/more-5-500-roman-era-silver-coins-found-buried-river.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.sciencetimes.com/amp/articles/34578/20211118/more-5-500-roman-era-silver-coins-found-buried-river.htm" rel="nofollow">https://www.sciencetimes.com/amp/articles/34578/20211118/more-5-500-roman-era-silver-coins-found-buried-river.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/silver-hoard-0016082" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/silver-hoard-0016082" rel="nofollow">https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/silver-hoard-0016082</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks, again, to everyone.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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