A metal detectorist’s lucky find has become the Scottish government’s gain — and experts say it’s the oldest Scotland-made coin ever found. The 900-year-old coin, which bears the image of David I, a ...
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A metal detectorist discovered the earliest known coin ever produced in a Scottish mint
In 2023, a metal detectorist in Scotland found a small silver penny decorated with royal imagery. National Museums Scotland (NMS) has now acquired the 900-year-old artifact, which is the earliest ...
Approximately 1,000 years ago in Constantinople — the bustling capital of the Byzantine Empire — a small gold coin was minted. Now, about a millennia later, the tiny treasure has been unearthed more ...
The gold coin unearthed by a metal detectorist in a field in Gundorf, northwest of Leipzig in Germany, may be small, but it belies a considerable history. The Saxon State Office of Archaeology, to ...
NEW YORK — A man using a metal detector discovered a centuries-old Dutch coin on the southern coast of Poland earlier this week, museum officials announced. The coin, a golden ducat, is from the ...
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