Even a scholar of historic coins is stumped by the Viking coin depicting a Christian biblical figure.

It was a silver shilling, bearing the likeness of the doomed King Charles I, and one day three centuries ago, someone lost it inside the Maryland colonial fort at St. Mary’s. It was an elegant coin, ...

Archeologists in eastern Newfoundland, Canada, have announced the discovery of a rare English coin that was minted in Canterbury, England, sometime between 1493 and 1499. The coin — which is ...

Government officials from Canada’s easternmost coast confirmed last week that local history buff and amateur archaeologist Edward Hynes unearthed the country’s oldest-known coin of English origin this ...

The discovery of a nearly 400-year-old coin led archaeologists to an even larger discovery: the location of one the earliest European settlements in North America. The silver coin, a schilling ...

May 21 (UPI) --A Maryland museum said archaeologists searching for the location of an early English settlement uncovered a rare clue: a silver coin dating from the 17th century. Travis Parno, director ...

The discovery of a rare gold coin on the south coast of Newfoundland, Canada, may challenge traditional historical narratives about the timing of European contact in the region, as it predates ...