Buried below the ancient ruins is a lode of copper ore ... of Siddhartha Gautama before he became the Buddha. Cascades of copper coins from the third to seventh centuries A.D. have also spilled ...

Archaeologists in Pakistan have unearthed an extremely rare hoard of copper coins, thought to be more than 2,000 years old, from the ruins of a Buddhist shrine built at the even more ancient site ...

"Forgeries would have had a thin plating of silver over a copper core and so if you pushed ... an academic who studies ancient coins at Warwick University, said it was "wonderful" to see the ...

Alan Baxter A hoard of farthings from the time of James III, who reigned as Scotland's king from 1460 to 1488 The 500-year-old coins, which were made of copper ... was to find ancient artefacts.

Police have prevented attempts to smuggle a large quantity of relics, including ancient coins, in southern Afghanistan's Kandahar province, provincial director for information and culture Abdul Shakor ...