Behind each of these seven coins is a unique history and an astronomical price that shattered auction records.
An unusual £1 coin featuring King Charles III on the wrong side has sold for 90 times its value. The 2025 £1 coin was snapped up for £90.08 on eBay after 16 bids, with collectors noticing that the ...
Walking into a specialty shop that truly understands what collectors need can feel like finding a rare treasure itself. For those who pursue numismatics seriously or are just beginning to ...
The goldsmith Donna Distefano uses ancient metalsmithing techniques to create replica jewelry inspired by portraits at the ...
Collectors and history enthusiasts will gather this weekend for Minted MNL’s 2026 Summer Show, where rare coins, a photograph of José Rizal, Spanish colonial gold coins minted in Manila and ...
More than a thousand years after a ship vanished off the coast of modern-day Croatia, archaeologists have uncovered a wreck that might reshape our ideas of the medieval world.
A public transit official working for the city of Leeds found the coin while counting bus and tram fares. Now, his grandson has donated it to Leeds Museums and Galleries ...
History often sits inside objects that outlive the people who once owned them. This weekend in Manila, several of those ...
A seemingly unremarkable foreign coin, once used to pay for a bus ride in Leeds, England, in the 1950s, has been identified as a rare 2,000-year-old artifact from an ancient Mediterranean civilization ...
Headlining Stack’s Bowers Galleries ’ Spring 2026 Maastricht Auction, the Olive Sprig Collection is a near-complete offering of 1927-1945 paper money of the Palestine Mandate featuring key treasures ...
A rare coin that was used to pay for bus rides in the 1950s in England has been found to be over 2000 years old after it was donated to the Leeds Museums and Galleries.
A 2,000-year-old Carthaginian coin minted in ancient Cádiz was unknowingly used to pay a bus fare in Leeds in the 1950s before being donated to Leeds Museums and Galleries.