The Croesus stater did not disappear after the ... world would be populated by different coins, like the Greek drachma and the silver shekels of Judea. So, the next time you have some loose ...

There’s an Athens gold stater struck in 296 B.C.E ... the king of Macedonia. Greek city states typically used silver for coins and the story goes that Lachares stripped the statue of the goddess ...

Of exceptional archaeological importance and rarity is the treasure of 29 ancient Greek silver coins found along with a portable clay ... minted in Olympia during different Olympic Games; an Aegina ...

A private collector has spent a pretty penny to get their hands on a 2,000-year-old gold Greek coin. Known as a Panticapaeum stater, after the ancient Greek city in modern-day Crimea, the coin ...

The 44 gold coins bearing the inscription of AD40 British Celtic King Cunobelin were discovered in Bunnik, near Utrecht, by amateur archaeologists. The “stater” coins were found at less than ...

A gold stater has sold for more than ... to disclose the buyer’s identity The gold coin was made in the 4th century BC in the ancient Greek city of Panticapaeum, near to modern-day Kerch on ...

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has worked in the fields of neuroscience research and mental health treatment. Long before Visa and Mastercard ...

The impeccably well-preserved tetradrachm coins — large silver coins commonly used in the ancient Greek world — are from the reign of Ptolemy VI, who ruled Egypt at the same time Epiphanes ...

An ancient Greek city in modern-day western Turkey was the setting for the finding of gold coins dating back thousands of years. Researchers led by University of Michigan archaeologist Christopher ...

“All the coins were in an excellent and rare state of preservation,” the ministry ... found alongside the remains of amphorae, which are Greek jugs with an oval body, narrow neck and two ...

A collection of ancient silver coins was unearthed recently on a small island in the Mediterranean Sea, officials said this week. The treasure trove dates back more than 2,000 years, with the ...

The “stater ... coins were discovered was a site from which the Romans had prepared for first crossing to Britain. open image in gallery Last year, dozens of 1,000-year-old Viking silver ...