Auctions A 2,000-Year-Old Gold Greek Stater Just Fetched $6 Million at Auction, Making It the Most Expensive Ancient Coin Ever Sold. The coin once belonged to the State Hermitage Museum until it ...

Aegina, a Greek island, was among the first to mint its own currency around 550 BCE. The Aegina Sea Turtle coins were made of silver and bore the image of a sea turtle, a creature sacred to Aphrodite.

A coin called Boratynka , which was used in the Republic of Poland and Lithuania from 1659 to 1668, ... The Karon mentioned by Olesek is the guardian of the Netherworld river in Greek mythology.

Take Greek mythology, for example: those stories are timeless because we constantly refer to myths and stories of Ancient Greece to make sense of contemporary events. ...

Some of the ancient Greek coins featured images of their gods Greek mythology is a collection of stories originally told by ancient Greeks - about gods, heroes, creatures and rituals - that were ...