In 2020, archaeologists unearthed a collection of 1,200-year-old coins from ... unveiled that the coins originated in the ninth century when Israel was under the rule of an Islamic dynasty.

There are only about a dozen of them remaining — a fairly sizable number, considering the coin itself is around 1,300 years old. The original price for this Islamic gold coin is unknown.

Egyptian officials recently announced the discovery of a 3,000-year-old mining complex ... "remnants of a complete factory for extracting gold from quartz veins," a translated version of the ...

In the middle of the sixth century B.C., King Croesus of Lydia minted the world's first gold coin. Known as a stater or ...