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Learn more about some recent discoveries: Anglers spot something poking out of seafloor — leading to a rare ancient find in Italy ... Read More | ‘Phantom’ coins — believed to be destroyed ...
THREE key details on your 10p coin could make it worth 3,000 times its value, as five sold for £340 at auction yesterday. The ultra-rare pre-production 10ps were issued from the Isle of Man in ...
A metal detectorist from England spent six years searching a single field before locating a rare Roman coin from 69 A.D. The ...
A large necropolis discovered in an ancient oasis provides a missing piece to the archaeological puzzle of the Iron Age, officials said. Screengrab from the United Arab Emirates' Department of Culture ...
Another ‘exceedingly rare’ coin from ancient times hails from the Greek island of Serifos and features a frog — ’only a few specimens are known’, says Russo — and there is an Athenian stater from 296 ...
What makes these coins rare might be a minting mistake ... the public's hands and the others might belong to a nation’s ancient currency. And yet, all of them have survived wars, law changes ...
A team of researchers from the University of Jaén identified the first known stone mold for making coins in all of Hispania at the ancient settlement of Obulco, known today as Porcuna ...
The ancient silver coins feature the images of 11 Roman emperors and empresses, including Nero and Marcus Aurelius.
A rare Roman gold coin (aureus) has gone on display at ... "Coins conveyed messages in the ancient world – showing the face of the ruling emperor, and his key soundbites.
Mangeac had found a hoard of ancient Roman coins — 1,469 silver denarii — buried in a field in Letca Nouă. He said the discovery left him in disbelief. Marius Mangeac found 1,469 coins dating ...