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The delicate art of restoring ancient Roman coins

Every ancient Roman coin holds hidden stories buried beneath centuries of dirt, corrosion, and damage. This fascinating video explores the careful techniques experts use to clean, identify, and ...
"All I want is an income of 20,000 sesterces from secure investments", proclaims a character in a poem by Juvenal (first to second century A.D.), the Roman poet. Today, 20,000 sesterces would be ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Finding money certainly makes for an exciting day, but that can be even more true when the currency has historic value. That was ...
Two thousand years ago, the Roman Army embarked on a far-flung hunt for silver. A new discovery reveals how close they came to finding an empire-altering fortune. Roman money, like this coin bearing ...
At the end of a talk for the American Numismatic Society on using coins in the classroom, History Assistant Professor Jane Sancinito made an appeal to collectors who find fakes mixed in with real ...