{"id":2351,"date":"2024-10-22T17:19:02","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T17:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/gold-coin-proves-fake-roman-emperor-was-real-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2024-10-22T17:19:02","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T17:19:02","slug":"gold-coin-proves-fake-roman-emperor-was-real-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/gold-coin-proves-fake-roman-emperor-was-real-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold coin proves &#39;fake&#39; Roman emperor was real &#8211; BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8B0s4lyAqDY?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>An ancient gold coin proves that a third century Roman emperor written out of history as a fictional character really did exist, scientists have said.<\/p>\n<p>The coin bearing the name of Sponsian and his portrait was found more than 300 years ago in Transylvania, once a far-flung outpost of the Roman empire.<\/p>\n<p>Believed to be a fake, it had been locked away in a museum cupboard.<\/p>\n<p>Now scientists have said scratch marks visible under a microscope prove that it was in circulation 2,000 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Please subscribe HERE http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/p>\n<p>#History #BBCNews<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8B0s4lyAqDY\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An ancient gold coin proves that a third century Roman emperor written out of history as a fictional character really did exist, scientists have said. The coin bearing the name of Sponsian and his portrait was found more than 300 years ago in Transylvania, once a far-flung outpost of the Roman empire. Believed to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":2352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[15,169,368],"class_list":["post-2351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","tag-bbc","tag-bbc-news","tag-news","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}