Between 660 and 750 AD, Anglo-Saxon England began to revive the use of silver coins, breaking from their traditional reliance on gold. To date, archeologists have discovered around 7,000 silver ...

Sometime around 660 CE, silver coinage replaced gold as the dominant form of currency in northwest Europe. But what was the source of all that silver? According to a recent paper published in the ...

Earliest coin minted in Scotland saved for nation after metal detectorist find - The medieval David I silver coin was ...

A resident of a southwest German town working on a construction project unearthed a stash of medieval coins minted around 1320 AD. The value of the roughly 1,600 coins recovered was deemed enough to ...

BHOPAL-A remarkable archaeological find has stirred excitement in Sagoriyapura village of Madhya Pradesh’s Morena district, where more than 50 ancient coins—believed to be made of silver and ...

The coins are currently being analyzed by experts at the British Museum Pippa Pearce/© The Trustees of the British Museum Shortly after the Battle of Hastings in 1066, a wealthy local buried a trove ...

Archaeologists in Bulgaria have discovered a 700-year-old silver coin depicting Jesus on one side and a Serbian king on the other in the southeastern village of Rusokastro. One side of the so-called ...

A HOARD of Medieval silver coins discovered by a metal detectorist have been declared treasure by a coroner. Cockermouth Coroners’ Court heard Richard Hunter found four complete silver hammered ...

A recent acquisition by the University Library's Department of Rare Books and Special Collections of more than 800 coins from medieval Greece will help researchers deepen their knowledge about a ...

A Norwegian man recently came forward to disclose that he had found several medieval coins as a child and hid them for six decades – until now. Jan Gunnar Fugelsnes told Møre og Romsdal County ...