Finding money certainly makes for an exciting day, but that can be even more true when the currency has historic value. That was the case at a construction site in the U.K. when citizens uncovered a ...

Archaeologists in France have discovered three ancient storage jars brimming with tens of thousands of Roman coins. The ...

A haul of coins from halfway across the world turned up on an archaeological site in Japan. Exactly how they got there is a fascinating mystery. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes ...

AS BIG as their empire was, the Romans never reached Greenland. Yet that remote island has become the place to go for those interested in ancient economic history. Greenland’s ice sheets preserve ...

Italy's Ministry of Culture told CNN that the treasure "represents one of the most important discoveries of numismatic finds in recent years” Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She has ...

A new analysis of several Roman coins unearthed in 1713 - long thought to be forgeries - suggests that they are authentic, providing evidence that the leader portrayed on one of the coins was indeed ...