While many silver Indo-Greek coins, especially Drachmas, have been found before, it’s rare to find moulds like these.” Unlike traditional die-struck coins, these moulds suggest the coins were being ...

Ahmedabad: During the excavation at Vadnagar, which lasted for a decade from 2014 to 2024, one of the finds that surprised ...

Apollodotus II is known for issuing bilingual coins with Greek and Kharosthi (script) inscriptions called drachmas, which had ...

Unlike die-struck originals, these moulds suggest a casting method, likely driven by the Drachma’s enduring trade value along ...

University at Buffalo faculty member Philip Kiernan heard a rumor back in 2010 and went on a hunt for a collection of rare, ancient and priceless Greek and Roman coins. Not in Greece and not in Italy.

“These coin moulds recovered from the Vadnagar archaeological site were from a period between 3rd and 5th century CE. They were meant to reproduce silver Indo-Greek coins known as Drachma. The ...

Coin bearing the Greek name Alexander. Credit: PHGCOM / CC BY-SA 4.0 A hidden gold coin collection tucked inside the wall of a small French home has fetched nearly $3.5 million at auction, astonishing ...

Archaeologists discovered a Roman soldier’s wrist purse in South Moravia, believed to be the oldest ever found in the Czech ...

In a significant step toward deepening cultural collaboration, Italy will return 145 ancient Greek coins, discovered on Kos in 1929–30 and currently held in Rome’s Archaeological Museum, to Greece.

Coin trove hidden in wall sells for more than £2.5m at auction A group of rare coins discovered hidden in a wall in a house in France sold at auction for €3m (£2.5m). More 2000 coins were stored in a ...