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280: LOST AND FOUND?

There is considerable hubbub at the moment over a claim that a ‘long-lost Roman emperor’ has been unearthed, on the basis of a coin long dismissed as a fake but now deemed authentic.

Various websites have sprung up. I am grateful to David Barrett for sending me a link to the BBC. The coin in question also occupies YouTube. And, inevitably, there is a sceptical podcast by Mary Beard – she is not alone in still thinking it a fake.

No site that

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