A collection of over 30 gold and silver English and Scottish coins from throughout the 1400s were discovered near the ...

If you travel to France these days, you’ll be dealing in European currency rather than French currency ... although coins had been produced before then. The new gold coins acted as “ransom ...

But Alyattes had been making coins out of electrum, a naturally occurring gold-and-silver alloy that often has bits of other metals in it. Alyattes' coins were standardized based on weight ...

Archaeologists from the French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research (INRAP) discovered a 1,800-year-old gold ring engraved ... a handful of coins from a later period when ...