The iconic Athenian owl, replicated from the ancient tetradrachm, has taken flight in the collecting world. Certain Greek one-euro coins featuring this design, particularly those with a Finnish “S” ...

A metal detectorist discovered ancient gold coins in the Netherlands that turned out to be a cult ritual offering. Experts ...

A treasure hunter unearthed a silver coin minted during the reign of Guthrum, a Viking commander of eastern England.

Archaeologists Unearth More Than 100,000 Ancient Coins, Carrying Traits of China’s First Unified Currency Archaeologists ...

The total losses are almost certainly much larger: The data does not include transactions that took place on a series of popular crypto marketplaces that started offering the coin only after its ...

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Both works were composed in the late eighth or early seventh century BC. They... Renaissance thinkers were deeply captivated by ancient Greece. They saw their own era as a reenactment of the great ...

The film focuses on a series of hunger strikes organized by those incarcerated at California’s Pelican Bay State Prison, in protest of conditions in highest-security prisons. By Alissa Wilkinson ...

“This represents a huge amount of personal wealth for the individual or group who collected these coins,” said historian Rebecca Usherwood of Trinity College Dublin. In ancient times, gold coins were ...