A pair of rare silver coins discovered by metal detectorists in Denmark were meant to offer 11th century Christians a bit of ...

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In a month where the UK Prime Minister has formally begun so called Brexit proceedings, it is almost amusing that the Royal Mint has also released a new two-tone pound coin that looks more than a ...

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A horde of coins found in Transylvania in 1713 contained several unlike other Roman coins in style and make, with enigmatic features including bungled legends and historically mixed motifs. The four ...

Excavators in Hungary have discovered a "very rare" gold Roman coin that features the face of a murdered Roman emperor. The third-century coin depicts Emperor Volusianus, who co-ruled the Roman Empire ...

A 13-year-old schoolboy discovered a rusty coin in a field on the outskirts of Berlin that researchers identified as a rare artifact from ancient Greece — but no one knows how it got there. The ...

The principle of inertia is a property of matter by which it continues in its existing state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, unless that state is changed by an external force. We are ...

A new 12-sided design has both covert and overt signs that make it easier to find fakes. But modernization only goes so far: the 766-year-old Trial of the Pyx tradition lives on to check the metals.

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Workers on a renovation project at Bath Abbey in the U.K. made a startling discovery when they removed seating in the ancient church – a pair of mysterious coins depicting a devil were beneath the row ...