Chemical studies of old English coins are helping unravel a centuries-old mystery: What happened to all the silver that Spaniards dug out of the New World? MINING MONEY A coin struck during the ...

A coin issued by Gaius Caesar - also known as Caligula - decorated with a portrait of the Empress Agrippina and dated to A.D.

Hundreds of Roman-era gold and silver coins were found in a field outside a village in the Netherlands, officials announced ...

Two British Teens Using Metal Detectors Discovered 1,000-Year-Old Coins One of the coins is a silver penny dated to Harold II’s brief reign in 1066. The other dates to the time of Henry I ...

An 8-year-old German boy playing in a sand box discovered a rare silver coin from the Roman Empire. Culture Department The coin was identified as a Roman denarius minted during the reign of ...

An almost 400-year-old silver coin found in a field in Maryland suggests that the remains of a nearby fort are all that's left of one of the earliest English colonial settlements in the Americas ...

Archaeologists discovered a collection of coins thought to be nearly 1,000 years old at the site of a medieval fort in southern Poland. Researchers found 12 silver coins at the fortress, which is ...

Retropolis Archaeologists find rare, nearly 380-year-old English coin during Maryland dig Silver shilling, probably dropped by colonist, turns up in St. Mary’s almost four centuries later ...