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Tens of thousands of antique bronze coins have been found after a diver along Sardinia’s shore noticed something metallic.
According to Italy’s culture ministry, the diver notified officials, who dispatched divers from the ministry’s undersea archaeology department to form an art protection squad.
Coins from the first part of the fourth century were discovered in sea grass near the Mediterranean island’s northeastern coast.
When the first diver saw something metallic off the coast of Sardinia, not far from the town of Arzachena, the ministry did not specify exactly.
According to the ministry, “all the coins were in an excellent and rare state of preservation.”
It stated that the inscriptions on the few damaged coins were still readable.
“Further evidence of the richness and importance of the archaeological heritage that the seabed of our seas, crossed by men and goods from the most ancient of epochs, still keep and preserve,” was La Rocca’s statement.
The coins were also located and recovered by border police and firefighter divers.
According to the ministry, the majority of the coins were discovered in a large patch of sand between the beach and the underwater seagrass.
According to the ministry, remnants of ship wrecks may be present in the area due to the seabed’s shape and position.
Tens of thousands of antique bronze coins have been found after a diver along Sardinia’s shore noticed something metallic.
According to Italy’s culture ministry, the diver notified officials, who dispatched divers from the ministry’s undersea archaeology department to form an art protection squad.
Coins from the first part of the fourth century were discovered in sea grass near the Mediterranean island’s northeastern coast.
When the first diver saw something metallic off the coast of Sardinia, not far from the town of Arzachena, the ministry did not specify exactly.
According to the ministry, “all the coins were in an excellent and rare state of preservation.”
It stated that the inscriptions on the few damaged coins were still readable.
“Further evidence of the richness and importance of the archaeological heritage that the seabed of our seas, crossed by men and goods from the most ancient of epochs, still keep and preserve,” was La Rocca’s statement.
The coins were also located and recovered by border police and firefighter divers.
According to the ministry, the majority of the coins were discovered in a large patch of sand between the beach and the underwater seagrass.
According to the ministry, remnants of shipwrecks may be present in the area due to the seabed’s shape and position.
