A metal detectorist discovered a 1,000-year-old gold coin depicting Jesus Christ while exploring the mountains in Vestre Slidre, a municipality in southern Norway. Known as a "histamenon nomisma," ...

The coins are thought to have been buried around the time of the Muslim Conquest of the Levantine Byzantine Empire in 635 AD. A cache of 44 pure gold coins from the Byzantine era was recently ...

A metal detectorist has discovered a rare Byzantine coin in the mountains of Norway’s Vestre Slidre municipality, more than a millennium after it was created and over 1,600 miles away from its place ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Approximately 1,000 years ago in Constantinople — the bustling capital of the Byzantine Empire — a small gold coin was minted. Now ...

A centuries-old coin depicting one of the world’s most recognizable figures was recently unearthed in Bulgaria. The likeness of Jesus Christ can be seen engraved on the silver piece along with several ...

A metal detectorist unearthed an ancient gold coin depicting Jesus Christ from the Byzantine Empire in Norway. Martine Kaspersen, Innlandet county municipality Approximately 1,000 years ago in ...

Approximately 1,000 years ago in Constantinople — the bustling capital of the Byzantine Empire — a small gold coin was minted. Now, about a millennia later, the tiny treasure has been unearthed more ...