Money has shaped civilizations for centuries, but in Medieval Europe, it didn’t work the way we think today. The rise of banking, trade credit, and money changers transformed the economy from a simple ...

In the seventh and eighth centuries C.E., early medieval Brits made a profound change in their spending. The island had long relied on gold for currency—but around 660, its economy was flooded ...

TBILISI, August 3. /TASS/. A medieval treasure trove of about 250 coins, including those dating to the period of Georgian famed 12th century Queen Tamar’s reign, has been found in Samshvilde ...

Keith Young and Lisa Stephenson discovered the thirty gold and silver coins during a sweep of a field in The Borders. The cache of currency, which includes groats, demys and half-demys from ...

Dr Jordan Claridge is developing a new dataset in order to understand wages in medieval England and the massive economic and societal changes of the late Middle Ages. Such views are generally based on ...

The coins are a mix of Scottish and English and were thought to be deposited at the site in the early to mid 1460s. Credit: Crown Office A haul of 15th century medieval coins has been discovered ...