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| Subject: Warning to lame gold-bugs: soldiers were unable to purchase goods with gold coins, as the merchants could not provide change for them Thu Mar 17, 2016 12:05 am | |
| A hiker has found a rare Roman gold coin, nearly 2000 years old, Israel's Antiquities Authority says.
The coin, from the year AD107, bears the image of Augustus, the first emperor of the Roman Empire.
The reverse side shows symbols of the Roman legions.
http://www.smh.com.au/world/israeli-hiker-finds-2000yearold-roman-coin-20160315-gnk160.html |
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