Ancient Greek coins acted as a version of social media, broadcasting political power and national identity to every level of ...

Depictions of the bee appear very early in the development of coinage in ancient Greece, which may have started in Ephesus.

This lecture explores the origins and development of coinage during the Archaic period. It examines when, where, and why coinage was first introduced, how it was produced, and the ways in which it was ...

The world is full of coin collectors. If everyone in the United States who has begun an album of state quarters counts, then tens of millions of Americans alone are coin collectors. But how can you ...

THE Greek word for money, chrema, carries a significance its English translation cannot fully convey. “It means ‘to need’ and ‘to use’ together,” explains Nicholas Stampolidis, director of the Museum ...

A collection of rare ancient Greek coins which has been hidden away for two decades is expected to sell for millions of dollars when it goes up for auction in New York on Wednesday. The Prospero ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a remarkable hoard of gold coins thought to be more than 2,000 years old in an ancient Greek city. The coins—likely dated to the 5th century B.C.—were found buried in a ...

Apollodotus II is known for issuing bilingual coins with Greek and Kharosthi (script) inscriptions called drachmas, which had high silver content and were used in ancient trade especially along the ...