The gold coin was discovered over 300 years ago in Transylvania, but up until recently it was kept tucked away in a museum ...

Noonans offered the Sapcote hoard in a recent auction, in which all of the coins were purchased by a U.S.-based buyer for ...

We live in an age where people resist and even resent the idea of authority. A rugged individualism that says you cannot tell ...

MiBAC/FacebookThe crack in the stone jar revealed the hundreds of ancient Roman gold coins that were inside of it.

Coin weights were the pocket-sized guardians of fair trade. Before modern banking, coin weights ensured fair transactions and ...

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

Each of the 16 coins is a denarius — the standard Roman coin — and Marsden estimates that the entire horde would have been ...

A hoard of 16 silver Roman coins spanning two centuries has been discovered in a field by a detectorist. The denarii date from the late Roman Republic to the reign of Marcus Aurelius and his wife ...

As we speak, some 3,600 Roman coins are being examined and cleaned at the Restaura restoration studio in Heerlen. They were found in the Dutch province of Limburg. But where exactly this astronomical ...

That would make the gold content of the coins worth about $735 at today's gold spot price. The weight of a silver Roman denarius varied over time from between 4.5 and 3.4 grams. For the sake of ...

Councillors Tony Wallis, Hannah Appleyard and Richard Forster show off coin moulds from the collection Coin moulds which were used for counterfeiting money during Roman times are to go on display ...