Though electrum was used exclusively for the earliest coins, the greatest production of electrum coinage in Asia Minor continued much later.

Roman emperor Trajan used coins to celebrate his conquests across the years.

Among the impressive ancient Greek coins are silver tetradrachms struck by independent cities in the second century B.C., with reverse designs within a wreath.

Roman coins are known for serving as a 'portrait gallery,' but one element that was also changing relates to the headgear worn by people shown on the coins.

Eight rulers issued coins during the brief Romano-Gallic Empire period. Sometimes coins are the only tangible evidence of the rulers' short reign.

After Alexander the Great, Macedonian silver coinage remained prolific during the Hellenistic Age.

The Empress Zoe appears on a small number of Byzantine coins, but these pieces are as Byzantine as it gets.

To the Romans, the crocodile was most familiar as the emblem of Egypt, and its appearances on Roman coins were in reference to that province.

Horses were possibly the most prized animals in the ancient world. So it is hardly a surprise that they often are depicted on ancient coins.

Fortresses were a common theme on the ancient coinage of the Roman Empire.