CIT captures the cataclysmic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in breathtaking detail with its new Cook Islands $20 “Lost City – Pompeii” coin, featuring a dramatic 10mm high-relief rendering of the volcano ...

Alyattes' coins were standardized based on weight, but because the ratio of gold to silver in electrum ... throughout the ancient world. Although Croesus lost the kingdom of Lydia to Persia ...

Credit: Andrew Williams/Norfolk County Council Metal detectorists in the east of England have discovered a cache of Roman silver ... that a person lost a purse that held the coins: "This ...