Also found among the Roman coins were 72 gold aurei, dated from 18 B.C. to 47 A.D. Those coins show no signs of wear and likely came from a pile of freshly minted coins, according to the Cultural ...

A hoard of 1,368 coins, most of them silver, has been discovered in a pot by a metal detectorist in Worcestershire, a county in England.The hoard was buried around A.D. 55, a time when the Roman ...

A Roman silver coin hoard worth almost the same as a legionary's monthly wage in the 2nd Century has been uncovered by a ...

"It's an exceptional find." Archaeologists in northern Spain recently came across the largest trove of Roman-era coins ever uncovered in the region —and it was all thanks to a burrowing badger. The ...

Severe drought helped bring about 'barbarian' invasion of Roman Britain, study finds; Gold coins from 'world's richest shipwreck' reveal 300-year-old depictions of castles, lions and Jerusalem crosses ...

A Roman coin bears an image of the emperor Nero. As for how the university came to possess the set, the school says they were donated by Thomas B. Lockwood some 80 years ago, ...

The 8.06 gram-sized gold coin, commemorating one of history’s most notorious regicides and minted in 42 B.C., went for $4.188 million to an unnamed bidder, according to Roma Numismatics Limited ...

A rare Roman coin depicting Julius Caesar’s assassin, Brutus, sold for €1.9 million ($2 million) at a Geneva auction, far exceeding its €800,000 estimate. The best of Artnet News in your inbox.

Many of the coins were minted in southern Italy, Özer noted, and all of the coins dated to between 75 B.C. and 4 B.C. Portraits of Roman emperors decorate the silver coins, she added. Image 1 of ...

The coin depicts Luna, the goddess of the moon, and the zodiac sign for Cancer. Dafna Gazit / Israel Antiquities Authority. A nearly 2,000-year-old Roman coin, etched with a symbol of the zodiac ...

Hadrian ruled over the Roman Empire during the first century A.D., ... Silver coins dating back to the 6th century B.C. were some of the rarest ever discovered in modern Greece.

The discovery of 1,368 Iron Age and Roman coins is expected to be valued at more than £100,000.