The early Anglo-Saxon creator was imitating a Roman coin called a solidus, showing the emperor Honorius on one side and a figure holding a banner on the other A "very unusual" gold pendant made by ...

A silver coin discovered by a metal detectorist in a field he visitied for more than 20 years is expected to fetch up to £6,000 at auction. Paul Capewell, a retired builder from Selston, ...

A LOCAL metal detectorist has unearthed a unique Roman coin displaying Emperor Hadrian whilst at Carlisle’s Roman Bathhouse dig site in the Cricket Club grounds. The coin, part of the ...

An extremely rare silver denarius of the Roman Emperor Carausius is expected to fetch up to £8,000 when it is sold at auction. The coin was discovered in June by Mike Clark, 73, in a field in ...

A metal detectorist has struck gold after 20 years of searching the same field - discovering a rare Roman coin which could be worth £6,000. Paul Capewell, 59, was heading back to his car after ...

Paul Capewell, a retired builder from Selston, Nottinghamshire, described the Roman coin as his "most exciting find so far". The 59-year-old, who took up the hobby with his father more than 40 ...

University of Reading [email protected] This paper considers a new corpus of 490,154 Roman coins (site finds) which have been recorded from England and Wales. The corpus provides British ...

A roman coin discovered in a Somerset field is expected to be sold for eight thousand pounds at auction. The rare silver coin which depicts the Roman Emperor Carausius was discovered by Mike Clark ...

"The coin, which was never published, features a laureate bust of the usurper Carausius, who commanded the Roman fleet 'Classis Britannica', based in the English Channel. "In AD 286 the emperor ...