In the 1950s, a passenger in Leeds, England, boarded a bus and paid their fare with a funny-looking coin. For the bus driver, it was a nuisance: a dodgy, seemingly foreign coin that wouldn’t clear the ...

The coin’s age and iconography identify it with Gadir, a settlement founded by the Phoenicians and considered Carthage’s first colony in Western Europe.

Excavation in Paphos, Cyprus, uncovered evidence of a rare late Hellenistic building, metalworking activity, and new structures in the Agora.

Coins have been around since what seems like the dawn of time and human civilization. Of course, numismatists, collectors, and historians know this isn’t quite true. It is generally ...