The coin was handed down to Peter Edwards from his grandfather in the 1950s.
The ancient coin was probably minted in what is now Spain in the first century B.C., but no one knows why it was used to pay a 1950s transport fare.
A piece of Japanese currency typically wouldn’t have a reason to show up in Australia. But the 1800s gold rush brought ...
NEW YORK — A man using a metal detector discovered a centuries-old Dutch coin on the southern coast of Poland earlier this week, museum officials announced. The coin, a golden ducat, is from the ...
The gold coin unearthed by a metal detectorist in a field in Gundorf, northwest of Leipzig in Germany, may be small, but it belies a considerable history. The Saxon State Office of Archaeology, to ...
A metal detectorist’s lucky find has become the Scottish government’s gain — and experts say it’s the oldest Scotland-made coin ever found. The 900-year-old coin, which bears the image of David I, a ...