VICTORIA, Canada (AFP) - An amateur treasure hunter with a hand-held metal detector has turned Canadian history on its head after finding a 16th century shilling buried in clay on the shores of ...

An extraordinarily rare coin with a face value of just pennies when it was minted in mid-17th century New England could sell for the equivalent of about $300,000 when it's put up for auction in London ...

A rare 400-year-old coin that was printed as 'political propaganda' during the English Civil War is being sold at auction in ...

The Cope Collection of Roman and British coins includes rare and significant examples that bear witness to some of the most significant moments in British history. In May, and again in October, the ...

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The 12-shilling coin is called a ‘unite’ coin and it dates all the way back to 1625 (Pictures: SWNS) A 400-year-old gold coin that was found in a pile of loose change may fetch up to £2,000 when ...

A rare coin minted in colonial New England sold for $350,000 at auction Friday, even more than the auctioneer expected. The one-shilling coin was made in Boston in 1652, one of the first coins ever ...

The New England shilling was struck in 1652 and is said to be one of the earliest US coins A rare example of one of the US's first coins has been found hidden in a collection kept inside a sweet tin.