Vindolanda Dig Unearths Nero Gold Coin

So that's where grandad lost it !

I had the privilege of being a volunteer excavator at Vindolanda for two weeks in July 2010. As an avid numismatist I was surprised to hear that no gold coins had ever been found there, so this is exciting news.

In my two weeks digging in the fourth century barracks and also at the northern part of the fort I was fortunate enough to find four Roman coins: a Trajan sestertius, a beat up Septimius Severus denarius, an antoninianus of Victorinus and a Constans FEL TEMP REPARATIO centenionalis with reverse of the emperor on a galley piloted by Victory.

(If it uploads) here's a photo of me right after I dug up the Trajan sestertius and dutifully handed it over to one of the staff archaeologists.

very cool, thanks for posting.

There were a few on display at the Vindolanda Museum. (My family and I stayed at a lovely cottage just down the hill from the fort so the museum was next door to us.)

There were many more tablets on display at the British Museum and I delighted in all of them.

Shortly after I left Vindolanda a tablet was dug up, but I haven't heard if there was anything legible on it.

I would LOVE to go back there. Those were two of the best two weeks of my life.