HistoryRoman Empire (161-180 C.E.)Germanylow confidence

An 8-year-old boy in Germany found a silver coin minted 1,800 years ago while playing in his school's sandbox; the denarius dates to the reign of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius, who ruled from 161 to 180 C.E.

Notes on verification

Multiple independent outlets (Live Science, Newsweek, Yahoo/McClatchy, Archaeology News) corroborate the find, its location, date, and identification by Bremen's state archaeologist Uta Halle.

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