The first coins appear to have been made from electrum ... the ancient Mediterranean world would be populated by different coins, like the Greek drachma and the silver shekels of Judea.

Britannia is the national symbol of the UK and can be seen across the country on multiple statues or old pound sterling coins ...

More than two dozen silver coins and remnants ... finds, the Greek Ministry of Culture said in a translated announcement. Hadrian ruled over the Roman Empire during the first century A.D., and ...

The find represents the “first evidence in the Judean ... preserved tetradrachm coins — large silver coins commonly used in the ancient Greek world — are from the reign of Ptolemy VI ...

Archaeologists discovered the hoard of Persian coins at the site of ancient Greek city in what is now Turkey. The money may have been intended to pay mercenary troops. The ancient Greek city of ...

The coin, one of 29 artifacts returned to Greek officials ... attorney’s office According to investigators, the coin is first thought to have come to market between 2013 and 2014.

Researchers discovered the stash in Notion, an 80-acre fortified city that was occupied from about the sixth century BC to the first ... Greek civilization and the Persian Empire. The newly found ...

The team found the stash of coins, alongside other artifacts, in a small pot buried under a large house in the center of the ancient Greek city of Notion, which was intermittently part of the ...

The sale of 254 coins, which spanned for many geographical areas of the Greek World, were going under the hammer to support a museum in Oxford. Credit: Noonans A phenomenal collection of gold and ...