A Roman silver coin hoard worth almost the same as a legionary's monthly wage in the 2nd Century has been uncovered by a ...

We pitch it, pinch it, squeeze and squander it. We stuff it in our loafers and offer it for our thoughts. A bad one always turns up and a pretty one is a splurge we heedlessly indulge. It’s the penny ...

Apollodotus II is known for issuing bilingual coins with Greek and Kharosthi (script) inscriptions called drachmas, which had ...

While many silver Indo-Greek coins, especially Drachmas, have been found before, it’s rare to find moulds like these.” Unlike traditional die-struck coins, these moulds suggest the coins were being ...

Nearly 1,500 years ago, inhabitants of Vadnagar town in present-day Gujarat began “reproducing” a popular coin of an Indo-Greek ruler using terracotta moulds, replacing the original die-struck coins ...

Unlike die-struck originals, these moulds suggest a casting method, likely driven by the Drachma’s enduring trade value along ...

Ahmedabad: During the excavation at Vadnagar, which lasted for a decade from 2014 to 2024, one of the finds that surprised ...

Spotting a rare foreigner in the southern Syrian city of Nawa, Khalil approaches with a business proposal: bring him a “very ...

From replica coins in museum cases to real-life heists and private vaults, here's what collectors want to know.

Archaeologists discovered a Roman soldier’s wrist purse in South Moravia, believed to be the oldest ever found in the Czech ...

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.

Greek city states typically used silver for coins and the story goes that Lachares stripped the statue of the goddess Athena to strike the coins—it was in vain: Demetrius took Athens in 294 B.C.E.