A treasure hunter unearthed a silver coin minted during the reign of Guthrum, a Viking commander of eastern England.

Ancient and rare British coins taken as ‘spoils of war’ by Romans found in Dutch field - The 44 gold coins were unearthed by amateur archaeologists in a field near Utrecht, Holland ...

Several dozen other coins, made of an alloy of gold, silver and copper, come from what is now Great Britain and were stamped ...

A dig near the hamlet of Hezingen uncovered 190 treasures at the former pagan site dating back to the 8th century, where the ...

If you've got a pile of old ... coins were melted down to settle war debts," the experts wrote in an online blog. "Today, they’re a testament to wartime sacrifice and economic strategy." The ...

In total, the treasure trove included 404 coins. Most of these were Roman silver denarii minted between 200 B.C. and 47 A.D., experts said. One of the more unique silver coins came from modern-day ...

Coroner Margaret Taylor declared the find treasure because "the hoard contains more than one silver coin of precious metal and is over 300 years old ... The British Museum confirmed them to ...

A hoard of 1,368 coins, most of them silver, has been discovered in a pot by a metal detectorist in Worcestershire, a county in England.