Hidden for more than two millennia, the Le Câtillon II hoard is the largest Celtic coin trove ever discovered. But was it a ...

Athens' oldest coins were created from silver originating around the world, a study suggests, revealing an unknown ancient ...

Kiernan focuses much of his research on ancient currency and antiquities ... despite remaining in their original 80-plus-year-old casing. A few of the silver coins require conservation treatment. The ...

A metal detectorist discovered ancient gold coins in the Netherlands ... recently came across a cache of more than 100 gold and silver coins buried underground in the Netherlands, prompting ...

Human civilization doesn’t get much more ancient than China, whose history dates back ... Republic of China 1916 Yuan Shi Kai One Dollar Silver, Flying Dragon Coins in this series depicting Yuan Shi ...

The first discovery was two ancient silver coins that had been minted during the reign of Alexander the Great, who conquered the Land of Israel at the beginning of the Hellenistic period ...

Stable value The analysis of the coins shows the earliest was made in about 57 B.C., during the late stages of the Roman Republic when Roman officials were ostensibly elected by popular vote. The ...

Four of the coins date to the reign of Marcus Aurelius, who was played by Richard Harris in the first Gladiator film, with the earliest dating from AD166 (above) A hoard of 16 silver Roman coins ...

22 October 2024 A hoard of ancient silver coins discovered by a team of treasure hunters will soon go on display at a museum. The coins were discovered in 2019 by a team of seven friends trying ...

On the back of the coin, two squares were hammered into the gold staters and one into the silver ones. Soon after Croesus invented modern coinage, the idea was adopted throughout the ancient world.