Gold coin proves 'fake' Roman emperor was real, say scientists
The face of Sponsian the first, who was purged from history by experts in the nineteenth century. Researchers have now established that he was a lost Roman emperor.An ancient gold coin proves that a third century Roman emperor written out of history as a fictional character really did exist, scientists say.
Prof Paul Pearson University College London, who led the research, told BBC News that he was astonished by the discovery. The ruins of the Roman fort which was headquarters of the Roman military in Transylvania from where Sponsian ruled. The final blow came in 1863 when Henry Cohen, the leading coin expert of the time at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, considered the problem for his great catalogue of Roman coins. He said that they were not only 'modern' fakes, but poorly made and "ridiculously imagined". Other specialists agreed and to this day Sponsian has been dismissed in scholarly catalogues.
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