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A Petition Crown of Charles II has sold for CHF 949,375 ($1 million) to become the most expensive British silver coin ever sold at auction.

The emperor Diocletian oversaw a period of profound change for the Roman Empire - and his coins are subsequently abundant and complex.

CoinWeek writer Mike Markowitz discusses Hera, queen of the Olympian gods, and the ancient Greek coins that bear her portrait.

CoinWeek's ancient coin expert Mike Markowitz writes about the coins of the emperors who presided over the Fall of Rome.

CoinWeek Ancient Coin Series by Mike Markowitz .....   GOATS WERE FIRST domesticated as long as 11,000 years ago, probably in the Zagros Mountains of

CoinWeek's ancient coin expert Mike Markowitz discusses Roman general Pompey the Great and the coins produced by him and his sons.

Throughout history, competent patriarchs have been succeeded by incompetent and downright mad sons. Mike Markowitz talks about their coins.

The rare stater depicting a satyr—a "marvel of speaking portraiture"—was once in the collection of the State Hermitage Museum but was sold to raise money for the Soviet government

An ancient Greek coin once sold off by Joseph Stalin has become the most expensive coin ever at auction in Switzerland.

WINE PLAYED SUCH a central role in Greek and Roman culture, economics, and religion that it is no surprise that Dionysus, the god of wine...