Credit: Crown Office A haul of 15th century medieval coins has been discovered in the Scottish Borders. Keith Young and Lisa Stephenson unearthed the historical thirty gold and silver coins in the ...

A hoard of coins from the Middle Ages have been discovered in Scotland. Metal detectorists Keith Young and Lisa Stephenson found the vintage money in the Borders. They unearthed the thirty gold ...

“Global currency then was real gold, real silver—it was a means of trade—and so people who had it were often very well off,” she says. The ring, she adds, probably belonged to a noblema ...

A rare Medieval bishop's ring found by a retired firefighter in a Norfolk field is expected to fetch up to £18,000 at auction. The gold ring, which has a central hexagonal cabochon sapphire with ...

Keith Young and Lisa Stephenson discovered the thirty gold and silver coins during a sweep of a field in The Borders. The cache of currency, which includes groats, demys and half-demys from ...

But Alyattes had been making coins out of electrum, a naturally occurring gold-and-silver alloy that often has bits of other metals in it. Alyattes' coins were standardized based on weight ...

The 63-year-old, who lives in Swaffham, said: “I was amazed to see a thin line of gold in the clod of mud that I had dug up, and as I wiped away the mud, I could see the bezel of a medieval gold ...

He discovered not just gold, but a Medieval Bishop's ring dating back to the late 12th to early 13th century. In November, 2019, Sell discovered the rare jewel in immaculate condition, with all ...