Leather pouch containing coins found under Pompeii skeleton
6/01/2018 07:00:00 PM
Archaeologists on Friday said they had found what they called the "treasure trove" of Pompeii's 'last fugitive', whose skeleton was discovered earlier this week with its head knocked off by a huge stone in the eruption.
Twenty silver denari and an iron key, probably his house key, were found in a leather pouch under the skeleton of the man with a limp who died gazing at the burning storm of ash and rocks that was heading his way, Pompeii director Massimo Osanna told ANSA. "Twenty silver coins equivalent to 80 sesterces, and 500 euros today, was a sum that an average family in Rome could live well on for two weeks on", Osanna said.
Having a similar sum on him, Osanna went on, "makes us think that he wasn't filthy rich but neither was he a poor man.
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