Global Coin introduces two extraordinary ancient coins—the Judaea Biblical "Widow's Mite" Lepton and the Three Wise Men ...

Cut off, the inhabitants produced their own currency, originally known as obsidional (Latin for besieged) coins, but often ...

Following the murder in 44 B.C.E., Brutus minted the gold aureus to promote his own image and celebrate his military ...

CNG Coins via Wikipedia, CC-BY-SA-3.0. Unlike kings, there have been only very few queens throughout world history who have ruled as sovereigns and also issued their very own currency. This has been ...

Renovations of a medieval building in the Netherlands revealed a very rare find: a floor made of bones, officials said. From ...

The old cliché about finding rare and valuable coins is that you should start by digging around in your sofa. That’s not necessarily bad advice. However, chances are the only loose change you ...

MAEBASHI--Archaeologists uncovered an estimated 100,000 ancient coins, some of which are of Chinese origin and are more than 2,000 years old. The coins were tied together in bundles with straw ...

The colossal gold and ivory statue of the goddess Athena, in the Parthenon on the Acropolis, was stripped of its gold which ...

While buying known rare coins can be a costly venture, you can start collecting for little to no money. And you don’t need to be of a certain age to take up the hobby. In fact, according to the ...