These metals, especially gold, became less precious for both the collectors and investors, who started pressing their sell buttons.

Kingdom is officially changing its coinage. See the picture in the story. Really interesting is when you place the six denominations in a specific shape they illustrate the Shield of the Royal Arms.

Excavations in Portugal brought a great treasure to archaeologists, who found over 4,500 ancient Roman coins, which were hidden in the wall of a blacksmith's house. The house stood somewhere around the 4th century.

About 1,650 years ago the Roman Empire was flooded with treason, profanity and presumably defacing of the coinage. People who started all this cursed Valens and hammered a coin with the Roman emperor's image into lead, afterwards folding the lead over Valens' face.