A metal detectorist pensioner who discovered a hoard of gold coins in a field said he was speechless after they sold for more than £100,000. Tony Asquith unearthed what looked like “a pile of ...
“It’s showing the increases because of his votes,” Pyon’s spokesman said of the four piles of coins topped with a car for car taxes, a lamp for utilities, a gasoline pump, and a hous ...
But Alyattes had been making coins out of electrum, a naturally occurring gold-and-silver alloy that often has bits of other metals in it. Alyattes' coins were standardized based on weight ...