The 2,000-year counterfeit currency is paid for thousands of dollars

An ancient coin produced from ancient Rome has just been sold for $ 5,000 (about 94 million VND) just because it was a counterfeit currency from 2,000 years ago.

Experts say the currency was produced around 30 BC, that is, in the time when the Egyptian queen Cleopatra and her mistress Antony were defeated by Roman Emperor Octavian.

The counterfeit currency from 2,000 years ago is valued at USD 5,000. (Photo: Daily Mail).

However, this is a counterfeit currency. According to experts, this currency is counterfeited to the point that it cannot be fake.

The pattern on both sides of the coin is distorted from the real money. A coin engraved with a crocodile image, however the head of the crocodile is in contrast to the real money. The other side of the coin should have been engraved with Octavian's picture, but on the face of this coin it was engraved with the image of the Caesar.

Sam Moorhead , an ancient money expert at the British Museum, said he had not seen any such money before. If the currency is real, its value could be around 161 USD. However, the scientists' judgment that this is a counterfeit currency from more than 2000 years ago, its conservation value can be up to 5,000 USD.

" The motive of a forger makes people unable to explain it. He uses pure silver to make a counterfeit currency that is too far from a real currency, how much is not profitable ," said Sam Moorhead. .

Rob Clements, a sanitation worker, found the coin under the grass near his home in Brighton. Clements said he had negotiated with a university and plans to sell the Roman counterfeit currency for $ 5,000 to the La Ma research center of the school.

" It is unimaginable that I could find something so unique and interesting. The more unimaginable it was 2,000 years ago, there were people who made counterfeit money. Hopefully the researchers could solve it. get the mysteries behind this fake coin , 'Clements said.