The gold and silver mines of ancient Greece produced the metals needed to forge empires and lay the foundations of Western ...

The carob seed which became the modern carats shows how ancient Greeks devised ingenious ways to ensure fairness in trade.

A trove of around 15,000 rare gold and silver coins hidden from Nazis and worth somewhere in the neighborhood of $100 million ...

Find rare, 2,500-year-old gold and silver Greek and Roman coins ... some of the most powerful city-states and rulers of the ancient world, such as Athens, Corinth and Alexander the Great. The coins ...

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i inherited the coin on my father's death and it still holds a fascination for me,not just because of it's age but what it was doing in a tiny hamlet in Derbyshire ...