Discovering ancient treasure resulted in a major payday for the lucky finder. A 34-year-old archaeologist named George Ridgway found a collection of more than 680 gold and silver coins with his metal ...

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 British man who found a massive cache of ancient Roman gold and silver coins while hunting with a metal detector has a lot more modern currency in his pocket after the treasure was auctioned off for ...

An ancient Roman coin celebrating Julius Caesar’s death has set an auction record. Last Thursday, the ultra-rare gold coin, dating back more than 2,000 years, sold to an anonymous bidder for a ...

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 ...

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A plumber in the United Kingdom unwittingly discovered ancient treasure while walking through a pasture on a summer's day – and now he's auctioning it off. David Dunn, a plumber from Sapcote, ...

Excavations in Senon uncover thousands of ancient coins and reveal dense Gallic settlement and affluent Roman town in France.

At the end of a talk for the American Numismatic Society on using coins in the classroom, History Assistant Professor Jane Sancinito made an appeal to collectors who find fakes mixed in with real ...

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Cardiff University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. All that was previously known about the supposed Roman emperor Sponsian was gleaned from a handful of gold coins that ...