Iron Age coins are most commonly found in Britain, on pre-Roman settlement sites. Experts say that the staters were not used as currency, but were gifts exchanged between elite members of society.

Gold coins dating back more than 2,000 years have been found by metal detectorists in Wales, making them the first hoard of Iron Age gold coins to have been discovered in the country. The 15 coins ...

Finding that coin was a magical moment. George Ridgway (inset) and some of the huge hoard of Roman and Iron Age coins he discovered while metal detecting at a site near his home in Suffolk ...

Builders were stunned when they stumbled across one of the largest hoards of Roman coins ever found in Britain — worth more than £100,000 (about $126,000). A total of 1,368 Iron Age and Roman ...

Inscriptions on Iron Age coins are the first evidence of writing in Britain.This gold stater coin was one of 5294 British Iron Age and Roman coins excavated at a Late Iron Age shrine near Hallaton ...

A "one-of-a-kind" cache of 933 Iron Age gold coins whose finder was convicted of attempted theft is to go on permanent display close to where it was discovered. The Great Baddow Hoard, which was found ...

“Ten other hoards of Iron Age gold coins contained in flint nodules have been found in Britain, but all of them are in museums”. A collection of 35 gold coins or staters were ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. Sixty-seven British Iron Age coins discovered by a 90-year-old metal detectorist in a Dorset meadow are set to fetch thousands at auction.

A museum has struck gold as it has doubled its Iron Age coin hoard. Halesworth and District Museum is displaying a potential "ancient warlord's ransom of gold coins" as another 22 Iron Age ...

A "one-of-a-kind" cache of 933 Iron Age gold coins whose finder was convicted of attempted theft is to go on permanent display close to where it was discovered. The Great Baddow Hoard, which was ...