his research suggested that the face on the coin belonged to a real life military leader, called sponsian, who ruled a province of the empire that is now transylvania, where only ruins remain of the roman occupation. the reason our research on these coins is so important is that we feel we ve now proved that they are real coins and can therefore say that sponsian could be a real person and that he is legitimately, therefore a lost roman emperor. the researchers now want to find more evidence of sponsian and to see what more can be learnt about the lost roman emperor. palab ghosh, bbc news, glasgow. i studied ancient history at school. i studied ancient history at school. i did ancient rome and ancient greece. when isil this, ifelt, i did ancient rome and ancient greece. when isilthis, ifelt, i had never heard of him. 0bviously un
and that he had a role in history. the coin is one ofjust four at glasgow university s hunterian museum. these three are of known roman emperors, but this one has been a real mystery. it has a picture of someone that the experts thought never existed at all. the coins were originally discovered in 1713 in transylvania. it was a small hoard of roman gold, and it was transported to the imperial coin collection in vienna. the detective story to discover who the mystery man was continued withjesper ericsson. well, they came here by quite an extraordinary route, really. they ve been laying in wooden cabinets, nearforgotten for almost 200 years. his research suggested that the face on the coin belonged to a real life military leader, called sponsian, who ruled a province of the empire that is now transylvania, where only ruins remain
never very good at school. he was written out of the history books. i didn t learn it then so why would i learn it now. sponsian. that is his name. he existed. he had a crown. finally we find out. shall we have a look at doha. the world cup and away now. we will be withjohn na few minutes. today is the day that england and wales separately will be talking about their next matches taking place tomorrow, friday. plenty of drama in the meantime. john will bring us up to date with all of that in a the minutes time. lots of shock results. germany being beaten by japan. lots of shock results. germany being beaten byjapan. this is something else i learned about you this
the coin is one ofjust four at glasgow university s hunterian museum. these three are of known roman emperors, but this one has been a real mystery. it has a picture of someone that the experts thought never existed at all. the coins were originally discovered in 1713 in transylvania. it was a small hoard of roman gold, and it was transported to the imperial coin collection in vienna. the detective story to discover who the mystery man was continued withjesper ericsson. well, they came here by quite an extraordinary route, really. they ve been laying in wooden cabinets, nearforgotten for almost 200 years. his research suggested that the face on the coin belonged to a real life military leader, called sponsian, who ruled a province of the empire that is now transylvania, where only ruins remain of the roman occupation. the reason our research on these
now he s got there, but at the toughest of times for malaysia, facing notjust the fragmented political landscape but also an economy struggling to recover from the covid pandemic. jonathan head, bbc news, bangkok. an ancient gold coin once thought to be fake has now been authenticated, revealing the existence of a third century roman emperor. called sponsian, he was said to have governed the eastern province of dacia in present day romania. he had previously been written out of the history books after 19th century experts suggested the coin might have been a forgery. here s our science correspondent, pallab ghosh. a roman coin that has baffled historians, thought to have been a fake for hundreds of years. a close look shows pit marks. these and its crude design led to the experts thinking it was made