Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hundreds of Roman-era gold and silver coins were found in a field outside a village in the Netherlands, officials announced this ...

A rare 24-carat gold coin almost 2,000 years old has been discovered by an amateur metal detectorist in a field in Kent, England, near the site of an ancient Roman road. Now it could sell for as much ...

Workers lifting a living room floor in a quiet French village expected dust and concrete, not a buried fortune. Instead, they exposed three ceramic jars packed with an estimated 40,000 Roman coins, a ...

Greek and Roman coins preserve rulers, gods, propaganda, cities, victories, and everyday economic life in miniature. Their ...

A horde of coins found in Transylvania in 1713 contained several unlike other Roman coins in style and make, with enigmatic features including bungled legends and historically mixed motifs. The four ...

Symbols on the ancient coin, which is about the size of a U.S. quarter, are an argument for the triumphant overthrow of a brutal dictatorship. Courtesy of Numismatica Ars Classica A rare golden coin, ...

A new analysis of several Roman coins unearthed in 1713—long thought to be forgeries—suggests that they are authentic, providing evidence that the leader portrayed on one of the coins was indeed in ...

Scientists in the United Kingdom say they have proven the authenticity of several Roman coins previously dismissed as forgeries – providing evidence that an emperor disregarded as fake might in fact ...

The eyes of a visiting archaeologist lit up when he was shown the 10 tiny, rusty discs that had sat unnoticed in storage for two and a half years at a dig on a southern Japan island. He had been to ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Archaeologists have discovered a hoard of gold Roman coins dating back ...

Five are believed to be from the Roman empire and one is from the Ottoman empire When archeologist Hiroyuki Miyagi heard that a bunch of ancient Roman and Ottoman coins had been unearthed from the ...