An enormous trove of 100,000 ancient coins were recently discovered in Maebashi, a city in Gunma Prefecture, Japan, with archaeologists estimating some of them to be over 2,000 years old. Archaeologists identified 44 different coins from the sample. The oldest one was believed to be a Ban Liang coin from 175 BCE.
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