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Among the discoveries were 12 silver coins from the 9th or 10th century. These coins were minted during the Carolingian dynasty, which ruled much of Western Europe in the early Middle Ages.
Amateur Dutch archaeologists found more than 100 Roman-era bronze and silver coins by the Aa river that experts say were left by travelers in hopes of ensuring safe travel across the water.
Minted to the Attic standard of 4.3 grams per drachma, the coins feature the head of Athena - goddess of wisdom - on one side, and her patron animal, the owl, on the other.
A Romanian man discovered nearly 1,500 ancient silver coins — or denarii — while on a hike with his metal detector in a field near Letea Veche, a small village in the southern part of the ...
Now, thanks to a chance discovery by a pair of divers, archaeologists have salvaged a haul of statuary fragments, figurines and coins from the seafloor. The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) ...
Such a huge number of coins would have weighed about 78 metric tons, or nearly 172,000 lbs., researchers say. To put that in perspective, that's heavier than the M1 Abrams battle tank used today ...