Last December, flames engulfed Ohio’s Overfield Tavern Museum. Now archaeologists get to dig beneath the floorboards.

A metal detectorist from Cheshire may have unearthed the largest Roman coin hoard ever found in Welsh history—and was so worried about losing it, he slept in his car with the loot for three nights. David Moss,

Metal detectorist Travis Nichols discovered a rare 1782 silver Spanish one-reale coin on a Nantucket beach, adding to his collection of over 300 historic coins.

Off Florida’s shimmering Atlantic coast, a team of modern treasure hunters uncovered more than a million dollars in silver and gold once scattered by a hurricane.

This discovery adds to Britain's impressive record of Roman coin hoards, though it falls short of the Cunetio Hoard discovered in Wiltshire in 1978, which remains the largest ever found in Britain. Nevertheless, for Moss, the find represents the culmination of years of dedication to the hobby and opens a new chapter in understanding Roman Wales.

The largest coins in the collection are two bronze Roman sestertii from the first decades of the Common Era. One depicts Caesar Augustus but was produced by his stepson, Tiberius, and has a temple on the reverse side; the other depicts Emperor Claudius and a robed female figure, “Liberty,” on the reverse.

A metal detectorist has discovered up to15,000 Roman coins, which could be the biggest hoard ever discovered in Wales. David Moss, 36, from Cheshire, was left in disbelief and said he had "goosebumps" after digging up two clay pots in north Wales.

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