September
07
/ 2015
A trove of 2,976 silver Roman coins stamped with emperors and their family members has been unearthed in Sofia, Bulgaria, at an ancient Roman and Thracian city inside the city’s borders. Archaeologists say the name of the apparent owner of the hoard was inscribed on the clay vessel in which they were stored. The coins were minted over a period of 100 years, says the blog Archaeology in Bulgaria. The earliest coins are of Emperor Vespasian, who ruled from 69 to 79 AD, and the latest are from the reign of Commodus, 177 to 192 AD. The hoard has other coins between those years with various emperors and relatives depicted on them. The coins were cached in a ceramic vessel
