September
26
/ 2021
Two amateur divers cleaning trash from the seabed of Alicante while holidaying off the coast of Spain have uncovered a cache of 1,500-year-old gold Roman coins. Numbering 53 in total, the gold coins are in a ‘perfect state of conservation’ and are dated to the late 4th and early 5th century. The stash was found by brothers-in-law Luis Lens and César Gimeno, who came across the extraordinary discovery in seven meters (23 feet) of water deep off the coastal town of Xàbia. “I thought I had found what looked like a 10 cent coin. It was in a small hole, like a bottleneck,” Lens was quoted by the Daily Mail as saying. A Fine State of Preservation Local experts and
