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In this undated image made available Thursday July 8, 2010, from Somerset County Council, showing Dave Crisp helping to recover and catalogue coins under controlled conditions as they are removed at the site where Crisp found them in a pot, near Frome, England. Crisp found a hoard of around 52,500 Roman coins dating from the third century AD, buried in a field using a metal detector in late April 2010. The hoard is valued at 3.3 million pounds ($5 million), and includes hundreds of coins bearing the image of Marcus Aurelius Carausius, the Roman naval officer who seized power in 286 and proclaimed himself emperor of Britain and northern France until he was assassinated in 293. (AP Photo / Somerset County Council, PA)
A staff member shows off four silver denarii of Britain's 'lost emperor' Carausius (AD286-93) as Roman coins are put on display at the British Museum in London, Thursday, July 8, 2010. About 52,500 Roman coins were found in a large pot by a British treasure hunter Dave Crisp using a metal detector in a field in southwest England, one of the largest treasure hoards ever found in Britain. Crisp found the coins dating from the third century AD, and is valued at 3.3 million pounds ($5 million), includes hundreds of coins bearing the image of Marcus Aurelius Carausius, the Roman naval officer who seized power in 286 and proclaimed himself emperor of Britain and northern France, ruling until he was assassinated in 293. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)
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