A private collector has spent a pretty penny to get their hands on a 2,000-year-old gold Greek coin. Known as a Panticapaeum stater, after the ancient Greek city in modern-day Crimea, the coin ...

A gold stater has sold for more than £4.8m setting a record for the most expensive ancient coin sold at auction. The coin from ancient Greece was sold at a Numismatica Ars Classica auction in ...

and there are good reasons why the Croesus stater became the ancestor of all modern coins. In the 5th century BC, the ancient Greek historian Herodotus wrote in his Histories about the Lydians ...

Where it is from: The kingdom of Lydia (modern western Turkey) When it was made: Circa 560 to 547 B.C. Related: Ancient Egyptian ... world's first gold coin. Known as a stater or Croeseid ...

Languages: English, Spanish Archaeologists have unearthed a remarkable hoard of gold coins thought to be more than 2,000 years old in an ancient Greek city. The coins—likely dated to the 5th ...

Archaeologists discovered the hoard of Persian coins at the site of ancient Greek city in what is now Turkey. The money may have been intended to pay mercenary troops. The ancient Greek city of ...

[Related: Ancient, surprisingly well-preserved purple dye uncovered in Greece.] According to University of Michigan archaeologist Christopher Ratté, the coins show a figure of a kneeling archer.