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 ...

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 ...

Coins depicting Victory were found fused together in a fire-damaged medieval house. The reverse side of the coins features the figure of Victory, holding a wreath, a cross, and a globe, with the ...

Kazan Federal University, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (Dubna, Russia), and Khalikov Institute of Archeology (Tatarstan Academy of Sciences, Kazan, Russia) are working together to study the ...

Prior to the newly publicized cache’s discovery, the largest known coin hoard from the early medieval era (around 410 to 1066 C.E.) was a purse with 101 coins found at Crondall in Hampshire in 1828.

Archaeologists have discovered more than $318,000 worth of gold and silver coins believed to have been used by pagans as "devil's money" at a rare Medieval worship site in the Netherlands.

The study looked at 49 medieval coins kept in the collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. These coins were minted in locations across England, ... The team found a strikingly clear split in ...

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 ...

Archaeologists discovered a collection of coins thought to be nearly 1,000 years old at the site of a medieval fort in southern Poland. Researchers found 12 silver coins at the fortress, which is ...

The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has stumbled upon a hoard of medieval period metal coins during the conservation of Khirki Masjid, a 14th century mosque in South Delhi.