"We weren't actually looking for a pot of gold." Archaeologists were recently excavating a house from the third century B.C.E ...

Here are some ancient coins worth a lot of money ... numismatic treasure that takes us back to the splendor of the mighty Persian Empire,” according to Austin Coins. It “features an enigmatic ...

But Alyattes had been making coins out of electrum ... the idea was adopted throughout the ancient world. Although Croesus lost the kingdom of Lydia to Persia during the Siege of Sardis in ...