MiBAC/FacebookThe crack in the stone jar revealed the hundreds of ancient Roman gold coins that were inside of it.

Hundreds of Roman-era gold and silver coins were found in a field outside a village in the Netherlands, officials announced this week. The coins are thousands of years old, the Netherlands ...

Coin weights were the pocket-sized guardians of fair trade. Before modern banking, coin weights ensured fair transactions and ...

A collection of over 30 gold and silver English and Scottish coins from throughout the 1400s were discovered near the ...

An ancient coin depicting the king of Numidia, Juba, from modern-day Algeria found in Bunnik. Photo from the Netherlands' National Museum of Antiquities The collection also included 72 Roman gold ...

The Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands announced the discovery, which consists of 404 silver and gold coins, in a Jan. 27 press release. The cache is a mixture of Roman and British coins ...

Four of the coins date to the reign of Marcus Aurelius, who was played by Richard Harris in the first Gladiator film, with the earliest dating from AD166 (above) A hoard of 16 silver Roman coins ...

Each of the 16 coins is a denarius — the standard Roman coin — and Marsden estimates ... are at least 300 years old and are at least 10% gold or silver by weight. If it is officially "treasure ...