A total of 38 coins found at the site dated back to the Ptolemaic period, (304 to 30BC), when one of Alexander the Great's general's descendants ruled Egypt. The ancient currency featured images ...

Roman mystery solved as scientists finally discover how empire collapsed Emperor Nero's grand palace unearths 'rare' and 'large' Egyptian ... as a stable currency, these coins were remarkably ...

The coins were donated in 1935 to the UB Libraries Special Collections by Thomas B. Lockwood as part of a larger collection of rare books. However, it wasn’t until Kiernan examined them out of ...