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Tom Metcalfe

Mystery of Roman coins discovered on shipwreck island has archaeologists baffled

two worn roman coins in copper and silver

Archaeologists are baffled but excited by the discovery of two silver coins from the Roman Empire on a remote island in the Baltic Sea, halfway between Sweden and Estonia. 

No clues reveal how the coins got there, but they may have been left by Norse traders, lost in a shipwreck or brought there on a Roman ship that voyaged to the far north.

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