It was enough to buy 150 sheep back then.

Researchers have unraveled the mysterious origins of silver that was used to make coins during the early medieval period in Europe. For a study published in the journal Antiquity, a team of experts ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dozens of coins in a bag and laid out on a table. Metal detectorists have discovered a literal pot of buried treasure deep within ...

Some used pandemic downtime to learn how to crochet or brew a batch of kombucha. In Scotland, many escaped the boredom of lockdown restrictions by taking up metal detecting—so much so the country’s ...

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 ...

A newly discovered medieval Chinese coin, the second ever found in England, points to the possible existence of a vast medieval trade route spanning much of the Eastern hemisphere. Discovered via 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 ...

A County Durham metal detectorist has uncovered a rare medieval silver coin now confirmed as a nationally important.

In a remarkable turn of events, a construction crew in Germany stumbled upon a massive medieval coin hoard while excavating a site for a new pool. This discovery, one of the largest of its kind in ...

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 ...