In 2008 a Roman copper-alloy radiate coin hoard (LEIC-BFD867) of around 7,000 coins contained in a greyware storage jar was found in south Leicestershire.

The coins range in date from AD 230s-290s, a time of great political upheaval in the Roman world, as is demonstrated by the plethora of rulers represented in the sample in what is a relatively short period. The group is broadly similar in composition to the many Romano-British coin hoards (at least 200 so far recorded) buried in the aftermath of the breakaway ‘Gallic Empire’. The Gallic Empire, whose capital was at the city of Trier, but which had held dominion over Britain, was established in AD 260 and reconquered by the legitimate (‘central’) emperor Aurelian in AD 274.

This hoard can be viewed at the Jewry Wall Museum in Leicester.