A 9-year-old boy has accidentally found an 1,800-year-old Roman coin while playing during an after-school activity in Bremen, Germany’s smallest state, the State Department of Archeology has reported.
It is a rare silver Roman denarius from the time of the emperor Marcus Aurelius –who reigned between 161 and 180 AD– which was found last summer and was publicly presented this Friday during a press conference with its discoverer, Bjarne.
The Bremen state archaeologist, Uta Halle, has acknowledged that the finding of this coin in Bremen “is something special” since there are only two other comparable pieces in the region.
In addition, Halle has highlighted that the coin has been found in an area outside the Roman Empireso he suspects that it could have been a trade object, belong to a Roman mercenary or be the memory of a traveler.
The archaeologist has reiterated that it is about a rare findsince there are not so many places where children can dig.
However, in recent years two similar cases have been reported in Germany, in Lower Saxony.
For now, the future of the coin has not yet been discussed with the child’s family, as explained by Halle, who has expressed a desire to exhibit the coin at the State Museum of Art and Cultural History in Bremen.
Source: Lasexta
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