The artifacts are poorly preserved, making the identification process challenging and time-consuming. So far, only 100 coins have been properly identified.

A metal detectorist in Germany has unearthed a hoard of nearly 3,000 Roman-era coins in an unusual place — north of the empire's defensive lines.

Researchers were able to identify the emperors on the coins: Valentinian I (3 coins), Valentinian II (7 coins), Todosio I (15 coins), Arcadi (17 coins), Honorius (10 coins), and an unidentified coin.

TOKYO — The eyes of a visiting archaeologist lit up when he was shown the 10 tiny, rusty discs that had sat unnoticed in storage for two and a half years at a dig on a southern Japan island.

Builders were stunned when they stumbled across one of the largest hoards of Roman coins ever found in Britain — worth more than £100,000 (about $126,000). A total of 1,368 Iron Age and Roman ...

The largest collection of Roman coins found in Spain is now on exhibit. The museum display features 50,000 ancient coins from the third and fourth centuries A.D.

As Ferenc Redo, an archaeologist and coin expert, told the AFP, nearly half the coins originated in Pannonia, a first century province of the Roman Empire located in modern-day Western Hungary.

Two amateur free divers have found one of the largest collections of Roman coins in Europe off the east coast of Spain.. Luis Lens and César Gimeno were diving off the island of Portitxol in ...

Both sets of coins were found "close to the remains of a Roman building" that had been excavated in 2013. The building is believed to have been a temple, dating back to the third century, the ...

New technology helps archaeologists explore the past 03:37. A hoard of Roman coins worth over $125,000 was found during a construction project in central England.

Ancient Roman bricks and coins lead to bigger discovery in Switzerland. See the photos ... so archaeologists said they were only able to identify a few stones and the foundation ditch.