In the seventh and eighth centuries C.E., early medieval Brits made a profound change in their spending. The island had long relied on gold for currency—but around 660, its economy was flooded ...

Additionally, comparing medieval values to modern currency requires many assumptions about relative worth and purchasing power. The study was published in the Scandinavian Economic History Review ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a hoard of gold and silver coins offered as diobolgeldæ, or “devil's money”, at a medieval cult site in the Netherlands, shedding more light on the rituals of ...

Keith Young and Lisa Stephenson unearthed the stash of 30 medieval coins in the tiny Scottish village of Cappercleuch while scouring the land with metal detectors. Five more artefacts were found ...

The coins are a mix of Scottish and English and were thought to be deposited at the site in the early to mid 1460s. Credit: Crown Office A haul of 15th century medieval coins has been discovered ...

Keith Young and Lisa Stephenson discovered the thirty gold and silver coins during a sweep of a field in The Borders. The cache of currency, which includes groats, demys and half-demys from ...

TBILISI, August 3. /TASS/. A medieval treasure trove of about 250 coins, including those dating to the period of Georgian famed 12th century Queen Tamar’s reign, has been found in Samshvilde ...

A collection of rare medieval coins have been discovered by two metal detectorists in the Scottish Borders. A stash of 30 gold and silver coins were found, with archaeologists finding another five ...

Dr Jordan Claridge is developing a new dataset in order to understand wages in medieval England and the massive economic and societal changes of the late Middle Ages. Such views are generally based on ...