The more important towns received privileged juridical status, including the right to strike coins from Roman generals during ...

A Roman gold coin bearing the image of ... It is one of only 17 known examples. The coin was "cast not in Rome but in a mint that travelled with Brutus and his armies as he tried to seize power ...

A man unearthed a priceless hoard of 20,000 Roman coins as he dug a new fishpond in his back garden ... "The coins identified so far can be attributed to Constantine the Great. "The mint marks - a ...

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 ...

An ancient gold coin proves that ... flung outpost of the Roman empire. Believed to be a fake, it had been locked away in a museum cupboard. Now scientists say scratch marks visible under a ...

A gold Roman coin celebrating ... Claudius — a coin first discovered in 1895 in the ashes of Pompeii — has sold at auction for nearly $22,400. The gold coin that marks the conquest in 43 ...

Roman forgery test It is unclear how the coin ended up in Cumbria. "If coins could talk, they would tell you a hell of a story," Mr Giecco said. He said punch marks could also be seen on the coin ...