The pendant imitates a Roman coin called a solidus, a type of gold coin introduced by the emperor Constantine in the fourth century A.D. It was discovered in January 2023 near the town of ...

About two years ago, a metal detectorist unearthed a small gold pendant near the town of Attleborough in Norfolk, England. It was designed to look like a Roman coin—called a solidus—that had been ...

The area was cut off from the rest of the Roman empire around 260 CE and there was an ongoing civil war. Researchers think he was a military commander who found himself in a difficult situation.

A new analysis of rare Roman coins says the man whose likeness appears on one of them was a real historical figure who ruled as a Roman emperor almost 2,000 years ago.