A 30-year-old British man with a metal detector came across a small 24-carat gold coin the size of a penny this past March. Yesterday, it sold at auction for $700,000. The 1,700-year-old coin, an ...

An extremely rare Roman coin commemorating the assassination of Julius Caesar has surfaced and may be worth millions of dollars, according to coin experts. “It was made in 42 B.C., two years after the ...

Israeli archaeologists on Tuesday displayed a rare and "remarkably well preserved" Roman-era bronze coin dating back 1,850 years, depicting the moon goddess Luna, the first such find in Israeli waters ...

Archaeologists in Turkey have unearthed a hoard of Roman-era silver coins in a jug buried near a stream. The 651 coins are about 2,100 years old, but despite their age, the text and imagery engraved ...

In a quiet corner of rural France, archaeologists have just uncovered a buried fortune: three ceramic jugs packed with around 40,000 Roman-era coins that had not seen daylight for roughly 1,700 years.

Excavating a fortress in Georgia, archaeologists uncovered several hundred coins. They were small, tarnished discs that might have been easily overlooked amid the much more extravagant and ...

Archaeologists in a small French village have uncovered a buried jar packed with tens of thousands of Roman coins, a discovery that turns an ordinary storage vessel into a frozen snapshot of everyday ...

Archaeologists discovered ancient Roman inscriptions and a 1,900-year-old coin wedged between rock formations while exploring a cave called the Cova de les Dones in eastern Spain. When you purchase ...

Archaeologists are studying a valuable trove of old Roman coins found on the site of a former theater in northern Italy. The coins, at least 300 of them, date back to the late Roman imperial era and ...