It isn't the first time construction workers have played the role of discoverers: Workers in January found a 300-year-old ship in Alexandria, Virginia and in Malaysia in April, may have found something a bit more unsettling- the world's longest snake.

And while she declined to name the collection's exact value, she did estimate it in the millions of euros, later saying, “I could not give you an economic value, because the value they really have is historical and you can’t calculate that.”Īs is to be expected, officials have suspended the water pipe maintenance, and the site will soon undergo a full archaeological excavation. Freedivers off the coast of Spain have uncovered a treasure trove of 53 perfectly preserved gold coins from the Roman Empire, one of the largest collections ever found in Europe. See more stories on Insiders business page. It consists of 53 Roman coins which, after being analysed by scientists from the University of Alicante Research Institute in Archaeology and Historical Heritage (INAPH), have been dated to. 1,300 Lbs Roman Coins Found in Spain The invaluable cache of coins was found by construction workers who were carrying out routine work on water pipes in southern Spain. Researchers suggested the coins could have been hidden from barbarian looters. Hoards of Roman silver and ingots have likewise been found. For 1,500 years, the seabed of the island of Portitxol in Xàbia has sheltered one of the largest collections of Roman gold coins found in Spain and Europe. A hungry badger is to thank for archaeologists discovering more than 200 Roman-era coins in a cave in northwestern Spain. Further excavation of the area revealed a total of 19 jars full of coins bearing the insignia of Emperors Maximian and Constantine, and archaeologists believe that the coins are from the third and fourth centuries, when the Romans ruled what is now the Iberian Peninsula.Īna Navarro, head of Seville’s archeology museum, where the coins are currently being kept, told a news conference it is a 'unique collection' with 'very few similar cases.' Navarro noted that the bronze coins are thought to have been used to pay the army or civil servants, or pay taxes, as they show remarkably little damage. The presence of Roman traders in Cork Harbour is suggested by a hoard of third- and fourth-century Roman coins found at Cuskinny Marsh. They were found mere feet from the den of a badger, months after Storm Filomena dumped heavy snow across swaths of the country. To read about a large collection of Roman coins found in England, go to 'Seaton Down Hoard,' which was one of ARCHAEOLOGYs Top 10 Discoveries of 2014. Talk about hitting pay dirt: a group of construction workers routinely installing a water line in the town of Tomares, Spain, unearthed more than 1,000 pounds of ancient Roman coins now believed to be worth millions of dollars. The coins, dating from between the third and fifth century AD, were spotted in a cave in the municipality of Grado in the northern region of Asturias.

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