the University of Oxford and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam have determined the source of the precious coins: melted-down Byzantine treasure. The team published its findings this week in the ...

Rare coins from the late 1800s can be worth a lot, due to several factors including the silver standard that was in place in ...

Here’s a look at eight coins worth thousands that collectors ... and nearly all were ordered to be melted down.” She said only 13 specimens of this coin are known to exist.

If that were the case here, the older coins with more silver would have been taken out and then melted for their precious metal. But the silver content of the oldest and youngest coins in this hoard ...

The Double Eagle is nicknamed as such due to the two eagles on its reverse side, with a third typically appearing on the edge ...

The Bulgarian National Bank (BNB) has launched an auction to sell scrap Bulgarian coins after the country adopts the euro.

This 1933 coin fetched an astonishing £13,334,400 ($18,872,250) at Sotheby's in New York, earning its title of the most expensive coin ever sold, according to the Guinness World Records. But what ...

Stable value The analysis of the coins shows the earliest was made in about 57 B.C., during the late stages of the Roman Republic when Roman officials were ostensibly elected by popular vote. The ...