A collection of ancient silver coins worth millions that was smuggled out of Turkey and sold to an American millionaire is coming home, the culture minister announced Thursday.The so-called Elmali ...

Details of a “very special” haul of 651 Roman coins found in the ancient city of Aizanoi in Turkey have been released by researchers behind the discovery.. The silver coins were found in a jug ...

The haul includes 7,046 Ottoman Turkish silver coins called akces Inmates in a Bulgarian prison were in for a shock when they stumbled across an enormous hoard of silver coins from the Ottoman Empire.

Archaeologists in Turkey have unearthed a hoard of Roman-era silver coins in a jug buried near a stream. The 651 coins are about 2,100 years old, but despite their age, the text and imagery ...

Greece returned 1,055 ancient silver coins to Turkey during a ceremony at Athens’ Numismatic Museum. The coins, confiscated by Greek customs officials in 2019, had been illegally imported into ...

ATHENS, GREECE—Greece repatriated more than 1,000 ancient coins to Turkey at a ceremony in Athens attended by Greece’s Culture Minister Lina Mendoni and Turkey’s Culture Minister Mehmet Nuri ...

Silver coins were more commonly used for daily expenses, such as going to the store. Those were known as Persian silver sigloi , 20 of which would equate to one gold coin.

The silver coins were called sigloi, and the gold ones were darics — a name derived from either Darius I, who ruled the Persian Empire from 522 B.C. to 486 B.C., or dari-, the root of the Old ...

Details of a “very special” haul of 651 Roman coins found in the ancient city of Aizanoi in Turkey have been released by researchers behind the discovery.. The silver coins were found in a jug ...