President Theodore Roosevelt was inspired by the artistic merit of ancient coins and sought to change the look of American coinage. In 1905 he asked famous sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens to create ...
Villagers in Tarsus, Turkey, uncovered an ancient ceramic jar filled with over 1,100 silver coins while digging a grave.
Major discoveries, from ancient tombs to submerged cities, reveal the incredible advancements of Greek civilization.
Archaeologists have discovered a pot of buried treasure overflowing with ancient Greek coins in Turkey. The gold coins were ...
i inherited the coin on my father's death and it still holds a fascination for me,not just because of it's age but what it was doing in a tiny hamlet in Derbyshire ...
Discovering coins alongside external dating evidence ... such as “the enormously wealthy Pythius (an ancient Greek architect) did who had some 4 million darics in his coffers as recounted ...
A hoard of Persian gold coins - believed to be more than 2,500 years old - was unearthed by a team from the University of Michigan working at Notion, an ancient Greek city-state on the west coast ...
Walking across an unassuming field, it didn’t take long before the device began beeping at what turned out to be an old-looking coin. Although the group couldn’t exactly tell when the coin had ...