The exact number of coins that have been retrieved hasn't been determined yet, as they are still being sorted.
A diver who spotted something metallic not far from Sardinia's coast has led to the discovery of tens of thousands of ancient bronze coins.Italy's culture ministry said Saturday that the diver alerted authorities, who sent divers assigned to an art protection squad along with others from the ministry's undersea archaeology department.The coins dating from the first half of the fourth century were found in seagrass, not far from the northeast shore of the Mediterranean island.
'All the coins were in an excellent and rare state of preservation,' the ministry said. The few coins that were damaged still had legible inscriptions, it said.'The treasure found in the waters off Arzachena represent one of the most important coin discoveries,' in recent years, said Luigi La Rocca, a Sardinian archaeology department official.
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