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

Ron Walters, from Kingswinford, unearthed the gold coin depicting Emperor Aulus Vitellius while metal detecting near Wall Heath, Dudley, last year. The coin was purchased by a collector from ...

The retired welder said he stumbled across the rare Roman coin after being told by his wife to "bugger off out for a bit". It is believed to be the first gold aureus of emperor Aulus Vitellius to ...

as most coins we find in this country are from the third and fourth centuries, and we are talking about a time when the gold was at its purest level." Vitellius was a brief emperor during the ...

The major sign of the coin’s rarity, according to the BBC, is its profile of emperor Aulus Vitellius, who ruled for just eight months (or one-ninth of the amount of time Walters spent searching ...