A unique gold coin struck 2,000 years ago during the reign of Roman Empire founder Augustus Caesar has sold for a £480,000. The gold coin - called an aureus - was made between 27BC and 18BC and ...

An Israeli hiker has found a very rare and precious gold coin bearing the face of Emperor Augustin and dating from 107 AD. Laurie Rimon had been travelling with a group to visit an archaeological site ...

The shiny object was just sitting there in the grass, waiting to be found. It was a 2,000-year-old gold coin with the face of a Roman emperor, so rare that only one other such coin is known to exist.

Archaeologists uncovered the coins in 2019 but only examined them recently due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Courtesy of Pamukkale University Archaeologists in the ancient Turkish city of Aizanoi have ...