A collection of over 30 gold and silver English and Scottish coins from throughout the 1400s were discovered near the Scotland border by hobbyist metal detectorists.

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 ...

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 ...