A "very unusual" gold pendant made by an early Anglo-Saxon in imitation of a Roman coin has been discovered by a detectorist. The replica is a copy of a solidus coin showing the emperor Honorius ...

The Anglo-Saxons' imitation "demonstrates a desire ... U.K. The pendant imitates a Roman coin called a solidus, a type of gold coin introduced by the emperor Constantine in the fourth century ...

Gold jewellery, silver ingots and hundreds of coins were buried ... the duo put the multi-million-pound Anglo-Saxon treasure into a carrier bag and returned to Wales, where they shared pictures of ...

In the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf the warrior Sigemund ... whose later imperial currency had been based on the solidus, a solid gold coin. Imperial gold had fallen to the Germanic tribes as plunder ...

Experts from Littlehampton Museum believe the small gold plate may have been decoration on a sword. The Anglo-Saxons "made the whole thing from scratch" rather than reuse an old coin, says an expert.

both in the Anglo-Saxon era and in the modern world, with a hoard of hidden coins at the centre of the case. Valuable as those coins were at the time they were buried for safe keeping, possibly by ...