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This 2000-year-old coin collected as bus fare in the 1950s, turns out to be a rare artefact

Food on Ancient Coins: Grain, Grapes, Fish, and Meat in the Ancient World

  By Mike Markowitz Most ancient people lived close to hunger. One bad harvest could bring starvation. Therefore, food supply mattered to every ruler, city, and empire. Ancient coi...

Wrestlers on Ancient Coins

Is Thisby Mike Markowitz Ancient Greeks loved wrestling [1]. Cities celebrated champion wrestlers as hometown heroes. They raised statues in their honor. Even today, modern Greco-R...

Atlas Numismatics Drops 589 New Rarities – Ancient Masterpieces, Gold Ducats, and Museum-Level Coins Hit Market

Atlas Numismatics has released a major new fixed-price list. In total, 589 coins, medals, and tokens are now available through its website. The selection spans ancient Greece, earl...

Thrymsas: The Tiny Gold Coins That Launched Anglo-Saxon England’s Money

Before Pennies, England Had Thrymsas: Tiny Gold Coins With a Huge Backstory By Mike Markowitz After Rome’s power faded in western Europe, gold still spoke. Small gold coins moved t...

Ancient Greek Coins – The Mythology of Ajax the Lesser

The Colosseo Collection Ancient Greek Coins – By Russell A. Augustin, AU Capital Management, LLC Opus stood as a small, infertile territory on the coast of mainland Greece. Larger...

Rare 3rd-century BC Athena coin found in Berlin field

A rare 3rd‑century BC bronze coin depicting the goddess Athena was found in a field in Spandau, Berlin, marking the first discovery of its kind in the region.

The Unorthodox Tetradrachm of Perseus

The Last King of Macedon Before Rome Crushed His Kingdom Original By Tyler Rossi – Updated by CoinWeek Perseus of Macedon ruled at the edge of a breaking world. He inherited a prou...

Teen stumbles on mysterious coin from legendary city, puzzling archaeologists over its journey

A German teenager recently discovered an ancient Greek coin in Berlin, the first such find in the city, likely left as a grave offering at a Bronze Age cemetery.

Rare Cyzicus Electrum Stater with Cabeirus at April 12th GreatCollections Sale

This Rare Cyzicus Stater Links Sea Power, Sacred Mystery, and Ancient Trade Ancient coin auctions do not often offer a piece that can stop even seasoned collectors in their tracks....

The Coinage of Probus (276–282 CE)

By Mike Markowitz “Such was the unhappy condition of the Roman emperors, that, whatever might be their conduct, their fate was commonly the same…” — Edward Gibbon The Crisis of the...

A thirteen-year-old student discovered a rare ancient Greek coin in Berlin

On the obverse is depicted the head of the goddess Athena wearing a Corinthian helmet, while on the reverse Athena appears holding a spear in her right hand and a distaff in her le...

1885 Aluminum Indian Head Cent Turns a One-Cent Coin Into a High-Tech Relic

This 1885 Cent Was Struck in a Metal Once Treated Like Treasure The 1885 aluminum Indian Head cent looks familiar at first. James B. Longacre’s Indian Head design appears on the ob...

Stolen rare coin showing Temple artifacts being returned from New York to Israel

Early Persian silver coin smuggled from Israel to Big Apple also regained after being offered for sale

Kings of Cappadocia Coinage: From Hellenistic Kingdom to Roman Province

Kings of Cappadocia PART I – PART II A mountain kingdom, a murdered dynasty, and a courtesan’s son. Silver coins that recorded Cappadocia’s fall into Rome’s orbit. This is the PART...

Hidden for 50 Years: NAC’s Traveller Collection Reveals Italian Gold Masterpieces in Zurich

Coins Hidden From Nazis: Italian Gold Masterpieces Emerge in NAC’s Traveller Collection Sale Numismatica Ars Classica will bring another chapter of the extraordinary Traveller Coll...

A Metal Detectorist In England Has Uncovered A ‘Bizarre’ 1,100-Year-Old Coin Depicting John The Baptist

The coin, found in Norfolk and thought to be from the ninth century C.E., is baffling numismatics experts. The post A Metal Detectorist In England Has Uncovered A ‘Bizarre’ 1,100-...

Regulated Gold Coins: The Rare Money That Kept Early America Moving

What Are Regulated Gold Coins? Before the United States Mint struck gold coins, Americans relied on foreign gold, trusted local standards, and the marks of respected silversmiths....

Buried for a century: 409 gold coins discovered under a Russian home, but the owner is still unknown

Indian Peace Medals: Important and Historic Collectibles

Indian Peace Medals: Russ Augustin Explores Rare U.S. History Video with Russell Augustin   Indian Peace Medals rank among the most historic objects in American numismatics. Th...

IAPN Congress in Rome: Coin Dealers Gather Where Ancient Money Once Moved the Empire

Coin Dealers Gather in Rome Where Nero’s Port Once Fed an Empire By Jeff Garrett The 2026 IAPN Congress in Rome gave the rare coin trade something more than a meeting. It gave deal...

Peter the Great’s 1704 Ruble: The Coin That Stood Between Old Russia and the New Empire

By Lev Moiseev – Auction House Alexander In 1704, Peter I was 32 years old. By then, he had already traveled through Western Europe during the Grand Embassy under the name Pyotr Mi...

A woman’s casual walk turns into a jackpot: More than 2,000 ancient coins were unearthed in a field in the Czech Republi...

Unique James Earle Fraser’s 1913 Buffalo nickel Galvano

A rare bronze window into James Earle Fraser’s 1913 Buffalo nickel Stack’s Bowers Galleries sold a remarkable bas-relief bronze galvano of James Earle Fraser’s reverse design for t...