An eight-year-old boy has unearthed an extremely rare silver coin while playing in a sandbox, dating to about 1,800 years before he was born. The young boy, who was identified only by his first name, ...

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Archaeologists in Germany have uncovered a handful of 500-year-old gold coins buried among the ruins of a medieval monastery. Known as Himmelpforten, the Augustinian Hermit monastery housed monks from ...

The silver denarius weighs 0.08 ounces (2.4 grams) and is one of the only coins of its kind found in Bremen. Bremen Culture Department An 8-year-old boy named Bjarne was playing in a sandbox at his ...