Rare Roman-era silver ingots depicting Constantine the Great seized from alleged black-market sale

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https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/rare-roman-era-silver-ingots-depicting-constantine-the-great-seized-from-alleged-black-market-sale

 

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Three "truly sensational" Roman-era silver ingots depicting Constantine the Great were nearly sold illegally on the internet, a new investigation finds.

 

An unnamed man alleged that his great-grandmother found the rare artifacts buried in the family's backyard in Transcarpathia (also known as Zakarpattia), a region in western Ukraine. Later, the man reportedly tried to sell one of the silver bars online, according to Public Uzhgorod, Ukraine's public broadcast station.

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