Mehdi Daryaii, the coin expert of the National Museum of Iran said on Monday that the Vikings were professional businessmen who used to bring in goods such as wool clothes, honey, wax, and ivory from ...

An extremely rare silver coin that was minted outside the Land of Israel during the Persian Period – within a few centuries of the biblical story of Queen Esther and King Ahasuerus in the 6th ...

Such techniques spread by way of Byzantium to northern Europe, where the emperor Charlemagne struck thin flan deniers (small silver coins), or pennies, which became characteristic of both his own and ...

Silver coins were more commonly used for daily expenses, such as going to the store. Those were known as Persian silver sigloi, 20 of which would equate to one gold coin. “The fact that this ...