Archaeologists Stunned by a Stash of 1600-Year-Old Roman Gold Coins, Depicting the Profiles of Different Roman Emperors A ...

PCGS graders have now encapsulated a recently auctioned circa 1600 Netherlands Kampen Double Rose gold noble, an extremely rare coin with perhaps five or six known examples, as MS-63.

The treasure — four bags of coins from the 1600s — was likely concealed during the Thirty Years' War, when Swedish soldiers frequently plundered the region. The discovery is an "incredible ...