The discovery of a rare gold coin on the south coast of Newfoundland, Canada, may challenge traditional historical narratives about the timing of European contact in the region, as it predates ...

Government officials from Canada’s easternmost coast confirmed last week that local history buff and amateur archaeologist Edward Hynes unearthed the country’s oldest-known coin of English origin this ...

Archeologists in eastern Newfoundland, Canada, have announced the discovery of a rare English coin that was minted in Canterbury, England, sometime between 1493 and 1499. The coin — which is ...

The discovery of a nearly 400-year-old coin led archaeologists to an even larger discovery: the location of one the earliest European settlements in North America. The silver coin, a schilling ...