An "incredibly rare" 2,000-year-old gold coin, found in a field by a metal detectorist, has been sold at auction for £3,300.

The 900-year-old coin, which bears the image of David I, a 12th-century king, recently went into the possession of National ...

Until around the middle of the third century BC, Celtic people mostly carried out their everyday transactions using a barter or payment-in-kind system. They exchanged items like grains, textiles, ...

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

Coralie Thomson, of auctioneers David Duggleby, in Scarborough, which is putting the coin up for auction, said it was ...

A German metal detectorist located a massive Roman silver hoard in 2017, but for the last eight years, he’s kept it hidden from government officials. Made public this year, the hoard was illegally ...

Volunteer archaeologists have discovered two Celtic gold coins, which are amongst the oldest ever found in the country. Two Celtic gold coins, over 2,300 years old, were found by volunteers in Sweden.

The gold coin unearthed by a metal detectorist in a field in Gundorf, northwest of Leipzig in Germany, may be small, but it belies a considerable history. The Saxon State Office of Archaeology, to ...