Gold, with its high value, was unsuitable for small transactions and gold coins were usually only issued in an emergency. Athens, in Attica (a province of central Greece) is the most famous of all ...

In an ancient Greek city, a collection of gold coins believed to be more than 2,000 years old were uncovered. During excavations at the archaeological site of Notion, the coins were found in a ...

i inherited the coin on my father's death and it still holds a fascination for me,not just because of it's age but what it was doing in a tiny hamlet in Derbyshire ...