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A Roman silver coin hoard worth almost the same as a legionary's monthly wage in the 2nd Century has been uncovered by a ...
The largest collection of Roman coins found in Spain is now on exhibit. The museum display features 50,000 ancient coins from ...
The pagan Anglo-Saxons copied a gold Roman coin with Christian imagery, but they didn't do a very good job.
Modern analysis of ancient Roman coins initially considered forgeries suggests they are not only authentic but are the only record of a Roman leader previously lost to history.
A collection of ancient Roman coins amassed by a former Latin teacher from Connecticut was sold at auction for over $1 million this week. Carol Ross' interest in ancient Roman currency and history led ...
Builders were stunned when they stumbled across one of the largest hoards of Roman coins ever found in Britain — worth more than £100,000 (about $126,000). A total of 1,368 Iron Age and Roman ...
Digging into the chalky orange-brown soil of western Germany, archaeologists exposed the ruins of an ancient Roman military camp. Their finds were plentiful but typical — until they uncovered a very ...
Hundreds of Roman-era gold and silver coins were found in a field outside a village in the Netherlands, officials announced this week. The coins are thousands of years old, the Netherlands ...
George Ridgway (inset) and some of the huge hoard of Roman and Iron Age coins he discovered while metal detecting at a site near his home in Suffolk, England. George Ridgway I had found it near a ...
Amateur archaeologists discovered a gold coin in a field, leading to a full-fledged search that revealed 141 Roman-era gold coins from the late fourth century A.D. The coins stretch across the ...
Hundreds of Roman-era gold and silver coins were found in a field outside a village in the Netherlands, officials announced this week. The coins are thousands of years old, the Netherlands ...
A coin unearthed by a metal detectorist in a field he had been visiting for more than 20 years is expected to fetch up to £6,000 at auction. Retired builder Paul Capewell described the Roman coin ...