In 1847 a few poor labourers living near Kottayam, a city in what is now the Indian state of Kerala, stumbled upon a hoard of gold coins. They exchanged these for a day’s worth of rice or a few rupees ...

Michael Eakers and his friend Brian Dixon made the find while searching pasture land at North Huish.

Almost two thousand years before the early 1920s Weimar Germany hyperinflation, there was the great currency debasement of the Roman Empire. At the turn of the second century, the Roman Empire ...

I am a people person, and always enjoy meeting new people, especially if we share the same passions. Sometimes fortuitous circumstances bring people with similar interests together, as what happened ...

A collection of ancient Roman coins amassed by a former Latin teacher from Connecticut was sold at auction for over $1 million this week. Carol Ross' interest in ancient Roman currency and history led ...