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 ...

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 ...

He found about 450 2,000-year-old coins in 2017, but he only turned the discovery over to the proper authorities in 2025.

A British man who found a massive cache of ancient Roman gold and silver coins while hunting with a metal detector has a lot more modern currency in his pocket after the treasure was auctioned off for ...

The largest coins in the collection are two bronze Roman sestertii from the first decades of the Common Era. One depicts ...

Spanish officials recently unveiled a trove of priceless Ancient Roman coins, marking the first time the massive collection has been put on public display. The National Archaeological Museum in Madrid ...

WORCESTERSHIRE, England (WKRC) - A man discovered a cache of over 1,000 coins from nearly 2,000 years ago by using nothing more than a metal detector. According to a release from Museums ...

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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 ...

An amateur diver spotted something unusual peaking out of the seabed off the coast of Italy. It turned out to be 30,000 to 50,000 ancient Roman bronze coins dating back to the 4th century. Italy's ...