On the southern Italian island of Pantelleria, a rare collection of 27 Roman silver coins dating from between 94 and 74 BC was discovered. The coins were minted in Rome and date from the Republican period, the same time as the first find.
The discovery was made during a restoration project by a team led by archaeologist Thomas Schäfer from the University of Tübingen, the Sicily region announced on Monday afternoon.
The coins were found in the Acropolis, the remains of an ancient Greek colony dating back to the 7th century BC. Including. The discovery came at the same site where 107 Roman silver coins were unearthed in 2010, and not far from where three famous imperial statue heads of Caesar, Agrippina and Titus were found a few years earlier.
Some of the coins appeared in loose soil after heavy rain, while the others were found under a rock during the excavations and had already been cleaned.
An archaeologist suspects the treasure was hidden during a pirate attack and never recovered.
Source: Krone
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