An extremely rare gold Anglo-Saxon coin has been discovered in a field in Wiltshire which experts say could fetch up to £200,000 at auction. Weighing less than 5 grams, the Gold Penny ...

A hoard of more than 100 Anglo-Saxon coins discovered by two metal detectorists in a field near Braintree, Essex, is headed to auction at Noonans Mayfair on February 21. Believed to have been ...

An Anglo-Saxon penny fetched £230,000 at auction - breaking the world record for a British coin. Specialists at Spink auction house in London had expected it to fetch between £120,000 and £150,000.

An Expensive 1,200-Year-Old Penny NPR's Noah Adams talks with Allan Davisson, a coin dealer who just bought a 1,200-year-old Anglo Saxon penny gold coin for $409,000 ( £230,000). The coin, found ...

One of the roughly 1,500-year-old Anglo-Saxon pennies shows a figure brandishing what appears to be a trident. It is thought the minted gold image could be one of the earliest representations of ...

A metal detectorist has unearthed what experts believe to be the oldest Anglo-Saxon coin from East Anglia in a field near Norwich. The tiny gold coin dates from AD640 to 660. Coin specialist Dr Adrian ...

Metal detectorists in southwest England unearthed the two gold-and-garnet objects from the Anglo-Saxon period in January.

A hoard of 122 Anglo-Saxon pennies, whose owner may have died ... metal detector revealed at a depth of four inches a silver penny that was not recognisable. Half a dozen more turned up in a ...

Clockwise from top left: Silver penny of Offa, Anglo-Saxon king of Mercia (front and back); silver coin of Cynethryth, Anglo-Saxon queen of Mercia (front and back); silver penny of Alfred the ...