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(LIVE SCIENCE) – A hoard of 175 silver coins unearthed in a forest in Italy may have been buried for safe keeping during a Roman civil war.
The coins seem to date from 82 B.C., the year the Roman general Lucius Cornelius Sulla fought a bloody war across Italy against his enemies among the leaders of the Roman Republic, which resulted in Sulla's victory and his ascension as dictator of the Roman state.
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The archaeologists who investigated the hoard of 175 silver Roman denarii – the equivalent of tens of thousands of dollars in today's money – suggested it may have been buried by a Roman soldier who was then killed in battle.
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