A gold coin long dismissed as a forgery appears to be authentic and depicts a long-lost Roman emperor named Sponsian. A new study led by a University College London researcher compares the ...

A coin depicting Sponsian, who researchers say was likely a Roman army officer who declared himself emperor in the third century. Photo: Pearson et al., 2022, PLOS One.

Builders were stunned when they stumbled across one of the largest hoards of Roman coins ever found in Britain — worth more than £100,000 (about $126,000). A total of 1,368 Iron Age and Roman ...

Steve McBride collects ancient Greek and Roman coins from his homestead in Mobile, N.L. He says it can connect people today with those who lived thousands of years ago.

A trove of 175 2000-year-old silver coins were discovered in Italy, some of which archaeologists claim may be from as early as 157 B.C. Facebook / Magyar Numizmatikai Társulat - MNT ...