Of particular note within the hoard is a gold coin of Claudius dated just prior to the Roman conquest of Britain in AD43, she said. "Roman gold coins of this period are rarely found." While the ...

The 680 gold and silver coins were found by George Ridgway at Helmingham Hall, Suffolk, and date from as early as 206 BC through to 46 or 47 AD, when Claudius ruled over the Roman Empire.

During her reign as Claudius’s wife, she was the first Roman woman to appear on the front of a coin alongside the emperor himself instead of on the reverse. Although Caligula gave her and her ...