The ancient Roman city of Suasa may have contained one of Italy’s first—and largest—arts districts. Archaeologists uncovered ...

On the hunt with high-tech treasure hunters Metal detectorists in Poland helped discover a large cache of ancient Roman coins, Polish officials announced. The "Group of Explorers" regularly search ...

Photographs of Roman silver coins stamped with the face of Antonius Pius, a former Roman Emperor, minted in the years 138-161, were among the discovered. An in-tact silver coin with the face of ...

Northern Spain's largest collection of Roman coins were most likely discovered by a hungry badger. Archaeologists said 209 coins from between the third and fifth centuries were found near the ...

This hoard contained 2,733 coins, the museum said, including "silver denarii minted between 32 BC and AD 235," and antoniniani, or silver and copper-alloy coins, made between AD 215 and 270.

Freedivers off the coast of Spain have uncovered a treasure trove of 53 perfectly preserved gold coins from the Roman Empire, one of the largest collections ever found in Europe. Brothers-in-law ...

A cache of old coins found in a Welsh field were determined to be about 2,000 years old, according to the experts who analyzed them and believe the treasure was buried during the Roman Empire.

Two of the newfound silver coins portray the wives of the Roman emperors, including Faustina I, the wife of Antoninus Pius, and Faustina II, the wife of Marcus Aurelius, shown here. Image 2 of 3 ...

The remains of a vast Roman trading settlement have been discovered by a team of archaeologists working along a future high-speed railway route in England. Hundreds of Roman coins, jewelry ...

In total, all of the coins are worth about as much as a solidus, a pure-gold coin introduced by Emperor Constantine during the late Roman Empire that weighed about 0.15 ounces (4.5 grams).

All of these signs point to the coins being authentic, dating back almost 1,800 years. Based on these findings, the team developed a hypothesis on who this Sponsian was, how his face ended up on ...