One of the coins in the hoard was a gold aureus of Claudius, the very emperor who led the invasion of Britain. That connection made the find even more special. It's heavy and a beautiful coin, and has ...
In the 1976 BBC miniseries I, Claudius, Emperor Caligula greets his horse ... As the blaze leveled whole sections of Rome, Emperor Nero was supposedly watching from a palace tower. And he was playing ...