Here’s how it works. A gold coin unearthed at the site of a medieval fortress in Bulgaria indicates the wealth of the people who lived there during the early years of Ottoman Turkish rule ...

Archaeologists have discovered more than $318,000 worth of gold and silver coins believed to have been used by pagans as “devil’s money” at a rare Medieval worship site in the Netherlands.

A buyer has paid £460,000 at auction for a rare medieval gold coin which has broken the record for a British coin. The Edward III double florin, known as a double leopard and with a face value of six ...

Gold coins and jewellery were deposited there at regular intervals over a period of about 100 years," the authors wrote in the study, which was published in the journal Medieval Archaeology.

Researchers tested 49 medieval coins, finding the older ones ... The island had long relied on gold for currency—but around 660, its economy was flooded with silver coins. The influx created ...

Languages: English, Spanish Researchers have unraveled the mysterious origins of silver that was used to make coins during the early medieval period ... of things like gold or bismuth being ...