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The E-Sylum: Volume 26, Number 1, January 1, 2023, Article 22

ROMAN COINS UNEARTHED IN ROMANIA

No numismatic details here about a find of what looks like Roman bronzes in Romania. -Editor

  Roman coins found in Romania

A Romanian man who went for a stroll to walk off Christmas lunch stumbled on a hoard of 800 Romania coins in western Romania, the state news agency Agerpres reported.

Csaba Koloszvari who made the find at Christmas in a plowed field in the western county of Alba, is already known in the area as a keen amateur detectorist. He found a trove of 100 silver coins this autumn in the nearby town of Ocna Mures.

He and a friend wanted to burn some calories after all those sarmele (meat and rice stuffed cabbage rolls). We're keen treasure hunters so we got out our metal detectors but didn't find anything and were about to put them away, but then came across 729 Roman coins, plus dozens of others which have been here for 2,000 years.

Koloszvari called round local archeologists he knew and eventually found one who came to the site and and dug out the coins which had been stored in a clay pot which was broken, he said in a post on Facebook.

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To read the complete article, see:
800 Roman coins unearthed by amateur metal detectorists in Romania (https://universul.net/800-roman-coins-unearthed-by-amateur-metal-detectorists-in-romania/)

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