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<p>[QUOTE="David Atherton, post: 3221286, member: 82616"]Interesting skeletal find. I think we will be seeing a lot of this sort of thing in the near future.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for a possible new coin find ... the wording is jumbled and unclear (Google translated?), did they actually find a coin with IMP XV or is it hypothetical? In any case, denarii of Titus that 'celebrates Emperor for the fifteenth time ... surely back to the month of # August of 79 AD' is incorrect- denarii with IMP XV were struck sometime after 8 September. That is why any coin found in situ with that date would be vital evidence of an autumnal event.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="David Atherton, post: 3221286, member: 82616"]Interesting skeletal find. I think we will be seeing a lot of this sort of thing in the near future. As for a possible new coin find ... the wording is jumbled and unclear (Google translated?), did they actually find a coin with IMP XV or is it hypothetical? In any case, denarii of Titus that 'celebrates Emperor for the fifteenth time ... surely back to the month of # August of 79 AD' is incorrect- denarii with IMP XV were struck sometime after 8 September. That is why any coin found in situ with that date would be vital evidence of an autumnal event.[/QUOTE]
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