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UK Man Digging in Back Yard Finds 20,000 Roman Coins

A British man from Thornbury, South Gloucestershire, discovered a pottery vessel filled with 20,000 Roman coins while digging a hole for a new fish pond in his back garden, according to a report on the BBC.

Most of the coins date to the 4th Century AD and according to reports are mostly bronze coins of attributed to Constantine the Great and may have been minted in Trier, Germany, and Constantinople. The coins are in the care of the Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery where they are being cleaned and examined.

The pot was found approximately 20 feet from the man's house and could be one of the largest coin hoards to have been found in Britain. While large, the hoard apparently contains low-value bronze coins which were produced in great abundance compared to the famous Hoxne Hoard of the 1990s which was comprised predominantly of silver and gold coins and vessels.