As soon as the researchers had established that the cash had been genuine, and that that they had found what they believed to be a misplaced Roman emperor, they alerted researchers on the Brukenthal Museum in Sibiu in Transylvania, which additionally has a Sponsian coin. It was a part of the bequest of Baron Samuel von Brukenthal, the Habsburg Governor of Transylvania. The Baron was finding out the coin on the time of his dying and the story goes that the very last thing he did was to put in writing a notice saying “real”.
