LONDON (AP).- A treasure hunter has found about
52,500 Roman coins, one of the largest such finds ever in Britain,
officials
said Thursday.
The hoard, which was valued at 3.3 million pounds ($5
million), includes hundreds of coins bearing the image of Marcus
Aurelius
Carausius, who seized power in Britain and northern France in the late
third
century and proclaimed himself emperor. Dave Crisp, a treasure hunter
using a
metal detector, located the coins in April in a field in southwestern
England,
according to the Somerset County Council and the Portable Antiquities
Scheme.