Several experts mentioned that the coin was used nearly a thousand years ago in Constantinople, the capital of the Roman ...
Grand Duke Georgii Mikhailovich painstakingly collected the coinage of the House of Romanov, Russia’s second imperial dynasty, which ruled from 1613 to 1917. The history of this powerful family can be ...
Strong radiate peaks are noted at sites in the east Midlands and East Anglia, particularly along the River Great Ouse. A significant number of sites in Lincolnshire have below average coin deposition ...
It’s called the Chew Valley Hoard, and like many of the great coin and treasure hoards in English archaeological history, it was found by some locals with a metal detector in a farmer’s field.
A pastime in a farmer’s field led to the discovery of Norman-era coins valued at more than $5 ... of the payout to buy a home. “It’s a great result.” ...
In a farmer's field in southwest England, Staples and six friends had found a hoard of more than 2,500 silver coins that had lain in the ground for almost 1,000 years. Valued at $5.6 million ...
The amateur treasure hunters had stumbled upon a rare find: a nearly 1,000-year-old silver coin, buried underground. Soon, they found another coin. Then, another. By the end of the day ...
London CNN — A hoard of Norman-era silver coins unearthed five years ago in southwestern England has become Britain’s most valuable treasure find ever, after it was bought for £4.3 million ($ ...
Another was ‘The Great Kentucky Hoard’ containing over 700 rare gold and silver coins from the Civil War era that was unearthed by a farmer. It included “a cache of U.S. gold coins dated ...