A diver swimming near the island of Sardinia in the Mediterranean Sea found something shiny on the ocean floor. This led to an amazing find: tens of thousands of old bronze coins from the 300s.
The diver told the Italian officials, and they sent a team that looks after underwater art and another team that knows a lot about underwater history. They went to check it out near the northeast coast, not too far from a town called Arzachena.
They haven’t counted all the coins yet because there are so many, but they think there could be between 30,000 and 50,000, judging by how much they all weigh together.
The officials said the coins are in really good shape, which is pretty rare. Even the ones that aren’t perfect still have writing on them that you can read.
An archaeology expert in Sardinia, Luigi La Rocca, said this is one of the biggest finds of coins they’ve had in a long time. He thinks it shows just how full of history the bottom of the sea is, with all the things that have been moved across it for so many years.
Teams of divers from the fire department and the police who patrol the borders helped find and pick up all these coins.
They found the coins spread out over a big area on the ocean floor, right between the sand and the seagrass near the beach. The officials think there might even be an old shipwreck nearby because of how the ground looks under the water.
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