{"id":1844,"date":"2025-02-04T16:42:09","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/03\/roman-coins-found-on-building-site-worth-over-100000\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T16:42:09","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:09","slug":"roman-coins-found-on-building-site-worth-over-100000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/roman-coins-found-on-building-site-worth-over-100000\/","title":{"rendered":"Roman coins found on building site worth over \u00a3100,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2024-12-03 15:00:54<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>A big pile of Roman coins found in a building site near Worcester is thought to be worth over \u00a3100,000.<BR><br \/>\nIt is believed the 1,368 Iron Age and Roman coins, which were found in the Leigh and Bransford area last year, date back to Emperor Nero&#8217;s reign between AD 54-68.<BR><br \/>\nThe vast majority of the Worcestershire Conquest Hoard are silver denarii, which were minted in Rome, and it is thought the hoard belonged to a farmer who provided livestock and grain to the Roman army.<BR><br \/>\nThe collection, which also includes an Iron Age stater gold coin and a pot, was declared treasure in June and the Worcestershire Heritage, Art and Museums wants to raise \u00a36,000 to display it all.<BR><br \/>\nDr. Murray Andrews, a lecturer in British archaeology at University College London (UCL), hailed the discovery as the &#8220;most miraculous thing&#8221; he has seen &#8220;over the last 100 years&#8221;.<BR><br \/>\nHe said: &#8220;It&#8217;s an important piece of archaeology.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;It tells us about what was happening here 2,000 years ago when the Malvern hills were maybe the boundary of the Roman Empire.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangpremier.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Premier (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024-12-03 15:00:54 A big pile of Roman coins found in a building site near Worcester is thought to be worth over \u00a3100,000. It is believed the 1,368 Iron Age and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1845,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1846,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844\/revisions\/1846"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}