According to Live Science’s Kristina Killgrove, Brutus used these coins to pay his soldiers, and the gold aureus was worth about a month of a soldier’s salary. Unfortunately for Brutus ...

The coin, an aureus weighing 8 grams and similar in size to a euro, started with a bidding price of over €800,000, initiating "an intense battle between eight online bidders," detailed the ...

The coin, dated to 69 CE, is considered by historians to be the first aureus of Vitellius found in England and is the only one of its kind in the British Isles. Experts have evaluated the find as ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. A rare Roman gold coin (aureus) has gone on display at Scotland's only museum dedicated to Roman and Iron Age Scotland. The aureus was ...

Experimental evidence of pathogen transfer by banknotes & coins In laboratory simulations, methicillin-resistant S. aureus can easily survive on coins. In experimental models, human influenza ...

Article continues below Not only is the gold coin an item of significant monetary value, it also turns out to have quiet the historical substance - believed to be the first aureus of emperor Aulus ...

hit the jackpot when he uncovered the nearly 2,000 year old gold coin last May on land he had been exploring for six years in Wall Heath, near Dudley, West Mids. Believed to be the first aureus of ...

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 ...