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934 silver coins found: questions over Germany's biggest Roman hoard

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What happened

In autumn 2025, a father from the Rhineland only meant to briefly sweep a field near Wesseling, south of Cologne, with his metal detector. Then it beeped and he unearthed a Roman silver coin – and it was not the only one.

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