"It's an exceptional find." Archaeologists in northern Spain recently came across the largest trove of Roman-era coins ever ...

An ancient emperor thought to be made up could be real after all, according to researchers who've analyzed an ancient coin bearing his face.. There are four coins on display at the University of ...

A Roman emperor, long thought to have been invented by forgers, was found by a coin study to have likely been real. Coins depicting a Roman emperor called Sponsian were first discovered in ...

The early Byzantine fortress Tuida was integral to the defense system, and this was the fourth coin of this kind retrieved from the ruins.

In 1713, a cache of Roman coins was discovered in Transylvania, several of which bore the portrait and name of Sponsian—but there are no historical records of a Roman emperor with that name.

The four gold coins depicting the "Roman emperor" Sponsian were long regarded as forgeries and Sponsian himself a fake. However, in a breakthrough new study in the scientific journal PLOS One, ...

A Roman emperor unknown to history may have been uncovered thanks to recent archaeological work on an ancient coin once believed to have been a forgery, a recent study suggests.. Researchers ...

A coin featuring a portrait and the name of the Roman emperor Sponsian was among a hoard of coins allegedly unearthed in Transylvania in present-day Romania in 1713, according to a study published ...

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 ...

A total of 1,368 Iron Age and Roman coins dating back to the reign of Emperor Nero were dug up on a building site near Worcester. “It’s the most miraculous thing I’ve seen over the last 100 ...

Stash of Roman Emperor Coins Found Near Tower brightstars - Getty Images Amateur archaeologists discovered a gold coin in a field, leading to a full-fledged search that revealed 141 Roman-era gold ...