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Archaeologists have unearthed 27 Roman silver coins on a remote island in southern Italy believed to have been hidden from pirates, local authorities said on Monday. The coins, dated between 94 and 74 BC, were discovered in the same area where another 107 coins were found in 2010 on the remote island of Pantelleria, which lies in a stretch of sea between Tunisia and Sicily. The site is also close to where the three famous statue heads of Caesar, Agrippina and Titus were a recovered few years earlier. Archaeologists led by Thomas Schäfer of Germany’s Universität Tübingen found the coins during …

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