A rare 2,000-year-old Roman coin discovered by a 76-year-old farmer has been sold at auction for £4,700. Ron Walters, from Kingswinford, unearthed the gold coin depicting Emperor Aulus Vitellius while ...

A metal detectorist from England spent six years searching a single field before locating a rare Roman coin from 69 A.D. The ...

A gold Roman coin found in a field by a grandfather has been sold for thousands of pounds at auction, and is believed to be the first of its kind ever found in the British Isles.

Ron Walters, 76, discovered the nearly 2,000-year-old coin on land he had been searching for six years in Wall Heath, near Dudley, West Mids., last May ...

The coin is believed to be the first gold aureus of emperor Aulus Vitellius to be recorded as a find in the British Isles ...

However, some of the latest coins were minted during the reign of Emperor Constantius II (347–355 CE), suggesting settlement continuity both before and after the mid-fourth-century fire.