The Treasure Fleet shipwreck happened in 1715 due to a hurricane while the ships were transporting New World riches back to ...

GHENT, N.Y. — This winter I made a concerted, and frankly impressive, effort to purge our basement of ancient files. I found it a challenge any longer to make the argument that the voluminous notes I ...

HOUSTON, Texas -- Kenny Duncan Jr remembers when a woman walked into his business with a Ziploc bag filled with old coins. Inside was a special Morgan silver dollar that was worth thousands of dollars ...

With all the recent news about the U.S. Mint discontinuing the Lincoln cent, coins have become a frequent topic of conversation around here. If it seems a straightforward enough decision — the mint ...

New pictures of coins from a 300-year-old shipwreck off the coast of Colombia help tell the story of the ship's journey. More than 300 years ago, June of 1708, British forces attacked a Spanish ...

Found close to Frey’s room above The Shady Tree bar to the West of the Lower City square. Exit Frey’s room, then make a U-Turn to the left. Get to the walkway running parallel to the city wall, then ...

Nearly 300 silver coins believed to be more than 1,000 years old have been discovered near a Viking fortress site in northwestern Denmark, a museum said Thursday. The rare trove -- lying in two spots ...

A resident of a southwest German town working on a construction project unearthed a stash of medieval coins minted around ...

Two metal detectorists have just discovered a collection of 1,000-year-old Viking coins on the Isle of Man, a small self-governing British crown dependency located in the middle of the Irish Sea ...

Ken Freeze’s journey into the world of coin collecting began at the age of 9. He’d spend countless hours sifting through jars of spare change full of fascination, searching for coins with a unique ...

The coins — believed to be from the 980s — were discovered in a Danish cornfield last autumn Kirsty Hatcher is an Associate Editor on the People.com Morning Team. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...

A coin minted by Jewish rebels just before the destruction of the Second Temple – an event Jesus predicted in the Gospels – has been unearthed in Jerusalem. The 2,000-year-old artifact was found at ...