Around 1,000 years ago, a remarkable gold coin with a depiction of Jesus Christ somehow made its way from the Byzantine Empire to Norway. Lost for centuries, it was just found by a metal ...

They found that 29 of the stash’s older coins (minted between 660 and 750) had isotopic signatures that matched that of third- to seventh-century silver from the Byzantine Empire. At its peak ...

As the Eastern Roman Empire emerged after the fall of the West, Byzantine coins were mainly comprised of two types of gold solidus coins and a range of bronze coins with clear values. At the time of ...