Archaeologists in France dig up a jar packed with tens of thousands of 1,800-year-old Roman coins

Archaeologists in northeastern France have uncovered an ancient neighborhood beneath the town of Senon, where they found three ceramic jars filled with Roman coins. The hoard is huge, numbering at least 25,000 bronze and copper coins from the 3rd-century CE. The discovery, made during a routine excavation, offers new insight into how people in the ...