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3,000 ROMAN 3RD CENTURY COINS FOUND IN WALES
Here's an item from the BBC News about a recent coin find in Wales.
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About 900 were found by a member of a Welshpool metal detecting club, with the rest of the discovery made with help from archaeologists. The exact location is being kept secret to protect the site. The Powys coroner will determine whether they qualify as treasure. Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust (CPAT), which helped unearth the coins, said the discovery had the potential to reveal more about Roman life in mid Wales in the late 3rd Century. The find in Montgomery is a few miles away from where a Roman fort once stood in the village of Forden. The majority of the coins were found buried in a ceramic pot, said the trust. "The hoard has the potential to tell us more about Roman life in mid Wales in the late 3rd Century AD. "This was probably a time of considerable political and economic unrest and the coins may have been buried for safekeeping with the intention of returning for them in the future. "Unfortunately for the original owner, but happily for us, for some reason they never had the chance to recover them." The coins were taken to the National Museum Wales in Cardiff, where an expert is writing a report. To read the complete article, see: 3,000 Roman 3rd Century coins found in Montgomery field (www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-mid-wales-14307381) KOLBE & FANNING SEPTEMBER 15, 2011 SALE HIGHLIGHTSKey Works and Multi-Volume Sets on Ancient Coins Including: Complete sets of BMC Greek, Roman Provincial Coinage, Davenport on Crowns and Talers, Duruy on Rome and Greece, Hahn's Moneta Imperia Byzantine, A Finely Bound Set of de Saulcy's 1836 Work on Byzantine Coins, A Complete Set of the Typos Monographs, Etc. Also, Georges Le Rider's Copies of Svoronos on the Coins of the Ptolemies, Babelon on Syria and on Persia, and Newell on Eastern and Western Seleucid Mints Catalogue Available soon at Our Web Site: www.numislit.com Printed Catalogues $10.00 KOLBE & FANNING NUMISMATIC BOOKSELLERS 141 W JOHNSTOWN ROAD, GAHANNA OH 43230-2700 (614) 414-0855 • df@numislit.com • GFK@numislit.com Wayne Homren, Editor The Numismatic Bibliomania Society is a non-profit organization promoting numismatic literature. See our web site at coinbooks.org. To submit items for publication in The E-Sylum, write to the Editor at this address: whomren@gmail.com To subscribe go to: https://my.binhost.com/lists/listinfo/esylum All Rights Reserved. NBS Home Page Contact the NBS webmaster 
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