Scotland's oldest known coin has been uncovered by a detectorist near Edinburgh, a 900-year-old artifact bearing the image of ...

In 2023, a metal detectorist in Scotland found a small silver penny decorated with royal imagery. National Museums Scotland ...

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 ...

The medieval David I silver coin, discovered in a wooded area in Midlothian, has been dated to the second half of the 1130s.

A newly discovered medieval Chinese coin, the second ever found in England, points to the possible existence of a vast medieval trade route spanning much of the Eastern hemisphere. Discovered via a ...

A Norwegian man recently came forward to disclose that he had found several medieval coins as a child and hid them for six decades – until now. Jan Gunnar Fugelsnes told Møre og Romsdal County ...

A resident of a southwest German town working on a construction project unearthed a stash of medieval coins minted around 1320 AD. The value of the roughly 1,600 coins recovered was deemed enough to ...

An 11th Century Chinese coin has been unearthed in Cheshire. No other Chinese coin from that era has ever been found in Britain. The idea that there was some form of link between Medieval Britain and ...

Between 660 and 750 AD, Anglo-Saxon England began to revive the use of silver coins, breaking from their traditional reliance on gold. To date, archeologists have discovered around 7,000 silver ...

The coins were likely hidden for safekeeping before the Battle of Bosworth A MAN who discovered two rare medieval coins has told why the find was extra special. Detectorist Rob Thompson, 61, admitted ...