A metal detectorist in Germany has discovered a rare hoard of almost 3,000 Roman-era coins outside of the Roman Empire's ancient borders and far from any known Germanic tribe settlements of the ...

Classified as guilders (guldens), a type of currency used during the Holy Roman Empire, the coins include one that was minted in Frankfurt before 1493, during the reign of the Holy Roman emperor ...

Among them were several Roman sesterces and, sensationally, a coin from the Byzantine Empire—a follis minted during the reign of Emperor Basil II, also known as the Bulgar Slayer. This coin, dated to ...

The silver denarius weighs 0.08 ounces (2.4 grams) and is one of the only coins of its kind found in Bremen. Bremen Culture Department An 8-year-old boy named Bjarne was playing in a sandbox at ...

BERLIN (AP) — Thieves who broke into a southern German museum and stole hundreds of ancient gold coins got in and out in nine minutes without raising the alarm, officials said Wednesday, in a ...

One of them is that the Gallic Empire tried bribing German elites either not to attack them, or to attack the Roman Empire. Why the coins were hidden in the Westerwald mountains, however, where ...

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.