A German metal detectorist stopped digging after finding 15 silver coins and called archaeologists, who then recovered 934 Roman denarii near Cologne, the largest hoard from ...

Sometimes the greatest discoveries are the ones you make when you stop digging. Amateur metal detectorist Oliver Riedl found 15 silver coins buried under a field in western Germany but when his ...
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Amateur archaeologist finds 934 Roman silver coins in German field

A trove of 934 Roman silver denarii was discovered by an amateur archaeologist with a metal detector in a field in Wesseling, Germany. The coins date to the time of the Roman emperor Hadrian. When his ...