People all over the world resolve arguments and make decisions using the time-honored tradition of flipping a coin, but did you ever wonder how the practice started? It turns out that there s not a ...

Keep your eye out for some rare coins that could be worth millions and millions of dollars.

Coin collecting, or numismatics (a term which also encompasses the study of coins), has been a practice for at least 2,000 years, with Augustus — also known as Octavian — famously gifting a variety of ...

No matter the name, past or present, the pound has been the United Kingdom currency since Anglo-Saxon times. Yet the coin used today has only been around since 1983. And this year, the Royal Mint will ...

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (WPVI) -- "I, like many of my colleagues, was a coin collector from a very young age," said Mark Schimel. Schimel's curiosity about coins led him to Stack's Bowers Galleries ...

Its owner has donated the artifact to the Leeds Discovery Centre after decades puzzling over its origins.

Behind each of these seven coins is a unique history and an astronomical price that shattered auction records.

Peter Edwards was gifted the Spanish coin by his grandfather in the 1950s in Leeds, England ...