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 ...

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 ...

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.

The ongoing excavation of an ancient Greek city in ... when tension was high between the Greek civilization and the Persian Empire. The newly found coins are from the reign of the Persian Empire ...