Archaeologists Stunned by a Stash of 1600-Year-Old Roman Gold Coins, Depicting the Profiles of Different Roman Emperors A ...

Archaeologists have discovered a hoard of gold Roman coins ... form over the Rhine had made the area impossible to hold on to; this corresponds to the final datable coins in this hoard." ...

Many of the coins were minted between A.D. 46 and 47, during the reign of the Roman emperor Claudius. During this period, the northern limit of the Roman Empire was the Rhine River, where Roman troops ...

Subsequent analyses revealed that the coin dates from the time of Emperor Claudius, who ruled the Roman Empire from A.D. 41 to 54. The coin was likely put there as an offering, the researchers noted.