The Cope Collection of Roman and British coins includes rare and significant examples that bear witness to some of the most significant moments in British history. In May, and again in October, the ...

Metal detectorists and archaeologists unearthed over 400 of ancient British, Roman and African coins linked to a military conquest, photos show. Photo from the Cultural Heritage Agency of the ...

A metal detectorist finds up to 15,000 Roman coins in Wales, a discovery that redefines local history and surprises ...

Hundreds of Roman-era gold and silver coins were found in a field outside a village in the Netherlands, officials announced this week. The coins are thousands of years old, the Netherlands' Cultural ...

Finding money certainly makes for an exciting day, but that can be even more true when the currency has historic value. That was the case at a construction site in the U.K. when citizens uncovered a ...

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - One of the largest hoards of Roman coins ever found in Britain has been unearthed in a field in Somerset, southwest England, by an amateur treasure hunter with a metal ...

This rare gold coin was minted in the time between Julius Caesar's unsuccessful invasions and Roman emperor Claudius' successful invasion of Britain. A gold coin minted by a little-known ruler in ...

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 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 ...

A gold coin minted by a little-known ruler in ancient Britain — an Iron Age man who said he was as "mighty" as a god — has been found by a metal detectorist and auctioned off in England. The rare coin ...