Dozens of ancient coins believed to have been stolen by Roman troops during the conquest of Britain have been unearthed in a Dutch field. The 44 gold coins bearing the inscription of AD40 British ...

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 ...

An excavation at Reynard's Kitchen Cave in the UK unearthed 26 coins from the Iron Age and Roman period. Digging through a cave in central Britain, archaeologists uncovered 26 ancient gold and silver ...

British Museum Quarterly is a scholarly journal published by the British Museum from 1926-1973. It is a journal dealing with recent British Museum acquisitions and research concerning the Museum's ...

The Royal Numismatic Society is the UK’s foremost society for numismatics – the study of coins, medals and related currency items. Founded in 1838 as the Numismatic Society of London, today’s society ...

In January 2019, Adam Staples and his then-partner Lisa Grace traveled to Chew Valley in Somerset, the U.K., to help a friend test their new metal detector. Walking across an unassuming field, it didn ...

Pieces once traded during the Greek and Roman eras or salvaged from Spanish shipwrecks continue to be popular with artisans ...

The world is full of coin collectors. If everyone in the United States who has begun an album of state quarters counts, then tens of millions of Americans alone are coin collectors. But how can you ...

At the end of a talk for the American Numismatic Society on using coins in the classroom, History Assistant Professor Jane Sancinito made an appeal to collectors who find fakes mixed in with real ...