A metal detectorist in Germany has unearthed a hoard of nearly 3,000 Roman-era coins in an unusual place — north of the empire's defensive lines.

University of Reading [email protected] This paper considers a new corpus of 490,154 Roman coins (site finds) which have been recorded from England and Wales. The corpus provides British ...

Provincial coinage gives us a unique insight into the Roman world, reflecting the values and concerns of the elites of the many hundreds of cities in the Roman empire. Coins offer a very different ...

While metal detecting in a Polish forest, a father-and-son duo came across 17 rare coins. The historic coins were found near ...

“Some of the coins in circulation dated back over 300 years and they provided a historical record of the achievements of the Roman Empire. “Trajan issued a limited number of coins which ...

"Some of the coins in circulation dated back over 300 years and they provided a historical record of the achievements of the Roman Empire," he said.

An extremely rare silver denarius of the Roman Emperor Carausius is expected to fetch up to £8,000 when it is sold at auction. The coin was discovered in June by Mike Clark, 73, in a field in ...

Laureate head of Aretas right with Nabatean legend 'Aretas, King of the Nabateans, lover of his people' on a silver coin (Photo courtesy of Nabataea) AMMAN – The Roman style was popular among the ...

A Darlington man has found a 1700-year-old coin from the reign of Constantine the Great. Mark McMullan, an experienced metal detectorist, has described the "buzz" of the discovery and how it stands ...

While Piotr Duda, an archaeologist from the Triglav Historical and Research Association, also noted that the coins' historical value is "indescribable," their material value is estimated to be around ...