A rare gold 'leopard' coin from the reign of King Edward III, which circulated for only seven months in 1344, has fetched £70 ...

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 ...

Discovered by a group of friends five years ago, an unprecedented hoard of 11th-century coins, valued at $5.58 million, will soon to be on display at The British Museum in London. On Tuesday, the ...

The first British coins featuring Charles III will enter into circulation before the end of the year, announced the Royal Mint in a statement. The portrait for the 50-pence coin, which Charles himself ...

Chemical studies of old English coins are helping unravel a centuries-old mystery: What happened to all the silver that Spaniards dug out of the New World? Silver from Mexican mines started being ...

TRURO, Mass., June 3 (UPI) -- A Massachusetts man said a coin he found on his property has been identified as an English silver sixpence minted about 313 years ago. Peter Burgess, a retired ...

When Viking raiders led by the imposingly nicknamed Thorkell the Tall besieged England in 1009, the kingdom’s leader, Aethelred II, concluded that the invasion was punishment for his people’s sins. To ...

Researchers tested 49 medieval coins, finding the older ones were minted from silver Byzantine goods and the newer ones were made of silver mined in western France. The Fitzwilliam Museum / University ...

New technique allows historians to more closely examine medieval money’s chemical composition. To determine trends in trade and cultural exchange, sometimes historians must follow the money. A team ...

A rare-coin specialist has named five vintage British coins that could prove very lucrative. These specimens are worth way above their face value, thanks to the date of their minting and the ...