Archaeologists in Germany have unearthed more than 1,500 medieval silver coins after a citizen unexpectedly noticed what looked like "small metal plates" while digging during a construction project.

Researchers have unraveled the mysterious origins of silver that was used to make coins during the early medieval period in Europe. For a study published in the journal Antiquity, a team of experts ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Silver coins in a man's hand covered with dirt. A woman who was hiking in the Czech Republic discovered a "jackpot": a hoard of ...

It may contain inaccuracies due to the limitations of machine translation. A selection of medieval European silver coins from the Fitzwilliam Museum, UK. Courtesy of the Fitzwilliam Museum/University ...

A former lorry driver has relived the moment he discovered a hoard of 18 post-medieval silver coins in Derbyshire that have ...

Sometime around 660 CE, silver coinage replaced gold as the dominant form of currency in northwest Europe. But what was the source of all that silver? According to a recent paper published in the ...

KUTNÁ HORA, CZECH REPUBLIC—According to a Live Science report, a hiker has discovered a hoard of more than 2,150 silver coins in a field in the central Czech Republic. Researchers from the Czech ...

The Israel Antiquities Authority announced Wednesday the discovery of remnants of two shipwrecks off the Mediterranean coast, replete with a sunken trove of hundreds Roman and medieval silver coins.

Archaeologists have discovered more than $318,000 worth of gold and silver coins believed to have been used by pagans as “devil’s money” at a rare Medieval worship site in the Netherlands. A dig near ...

Archaeologists discovered a collection of coins thought to be nearly 1,000 years old at the site of a medieval fort in southern Poland. Researchers found 12 silver coins at the fortress, which is ...

A set of silver coins from the collection of Déri Museum Debrecen (Hungary) was examined by X-ray fluorescent elemental analysis with the aim to assign the coins to different groups with the best ...

Approximately 20,000 medieval-era silver coins have been unearthed on the outskirts of Stockholm, Sweden. According to a report by the scientific media outlet Live Science on the 11th, the Stockholm ...