Discovering ancient treasure resulted in a major payday for the lucky finder. A 34-year-old archaeologist named George Ridgway found a collection of more than 680 gold and silver coins with his metal ...

At the end of a talk for the American Numismatic Society on using coins in the classroom, History Assistant Professor Jane Sancinito made an appeal to collectors who find fakes mixed in with real ...

Luxembourg officials recently announced that an "extremely rare" cache of gold coins from the fourth century A.D. has recently been unearthed, ending an excavation project that was four years in the ...

An excavation in Senon, France, unearthed three amphorae full of ancient Roman coins that had been buried under the floor of what was once a living room. This region of France was once populated by a ...

A collection of ancient Roman coins amassed by a former Latin teacher from Connecticut was sold at auction for over $1 million this week. Carol Ross' interest in ancient Roman currency and history led ...

An archaeological dig has uncovered two ancient Roman coins, among other remains, on a small island that measures just 3 miles in length. The coins are a silver "Antoninianus" dated to A.D. 255 that ...

Archaeologists discovered ancient Roman inscriptions and a 1,900-year-old coin wedged between rock formations while exploring a cave called the Cova de les Dones in eastern Spain. When you purchase ...