The U.S. government improperly seized a set of extremely rare and valuable "double eagle" coins from a Philadelphia jeweler's descendants and must win a forfeiture case to keep them, a judge ruled this week.
If he’s a pirate who’s made off with a half-billion-dollar booty haul, as Spain says he is, Greg Stemm didn’t look the part. Sporting a closely trimmed gray beard and wearing a sport coat with a black shirt and matching slacks, he never once said “Arrrr” or “matey.” He didn’t even have an eye patch or a parrot perched on his tweed-upholstered shoulder.
A presidential inauguration is like the Super Bowl or Olympics — an event people want to remember with a souvenir, even if they don’t attend. That’s especially true for the inauguration of Barack Obama, and marketers know it.
A hobbyist with a metal detector struck both gold and silver when he uncovered an important cache of ancient Celtic coins in a cornfield in the southern Dutch city of Maastricht.
The U.S. Mint is temporarily halting sales of its popular American Buffalo 24-karat gold coins because it can't keep up with soaring demand as investors seek the safety of gold amid economic turbulence.
A steamship that sank off the Louisiana coast during an 1846 storm has produced a trove of rare gold coins, including some produced at two largely forgotten U.S. Mints in the South, coin experts say.
Alan Stahl has a lot of change on his hands — and not the kind you can cash in at any bank. The curator of Princeton University's numismatic collection is in charge of protecting and displaying tens of thousands of coins, tokens, medals, and pieces of paper money.
Police seized hundreds of ancient coins — some dating back 2,300 years — allegedly stashed away by a 70-year-old barber in northern Greece, authorities said Monday.
First Lady Laura Bush paid tribute Monday to "one of America's most beloved first ladies" — Dolley Madison — at the unveiling of a coin in Madison's honor.
Talk about throwing away money. Piles of old coins worth as much as $200,000 were found in a long-abandoned home, including scores that the owner had apparently thrown down a hole in the wall.
Archaeologists excavating a site in northeastern Portugal discovered 4,500 ancient Roman coins tucked away inside a wall.
An odd-looking Canadian quarter with a bright red flower was the culprit behind a false espionage warning from the Defense Department about mysterious coins with radio frequency transmitters, The Associated Press has learned.
For the first time, the U.S. Mint is dedicating a series of coins to the accomplishments of women — the nation's first ladies.
A family is suing the U.S. Mint, saying it illegally seized 10 gold coins that are among the rarest and most valuable in the world that the family found among a dead relative's possessions.
Can George Washington and Thomas Jefferson succeed where Susan B. Anthony and Sacajawea failed? The U.S. Mint is hoping America's presidents will win acceptance, finally, for the maligned dollar coin.
The U.S. Mint unveiled the nation's first 24-karat gold coin Tuesday, hoping to capture a sizable share of the global market for pure gold coins.
"The rich," wrote F. Scott Fitzgerald, "are different from you and me."
A harvest of Anglo Saxon gold and silver so beautiful it brought tears to the eyes of one expert, has poured out of a Staffordshire field - the largest hoard of gold from the period ever found.
That's right, folks! Not only CAN it be possible...It's the ONLY LOGICAL WAY to go about doing it! Everything else failed, and the really stupid part...We are letting Our Congress try Hyperinflating again, to reduce debt.
An Israeli travel agency decided to show its resentment for a verdict in an original way: they paid the sum of money ordered by the court to be paid to the plaintive in small change: a big bag full of coins.
A technical error at the Royal Mint led to up to 200,000 coins entering circulation without a date for what is thought to be the first time in more than 300 years.
Archaeologists unveiled the tomb of a member of a powerful family that governed a swath of western Egypt about 2,500 years ago along with the mummies inside.
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A Washington man tried to pay a traffic ticket by sending a plastic bag filled with $206 worth of urine-soaked coins to a county billing office, deputies said Wednesday.
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Abner Richet, a social work student at the University of Washington in Seattle, had been on his first visit to the nation's capital for only a few hours before he started shopping for souvenirs marking the upcoming inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama .
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Recession-wary Americans embraced the virtues of thrift this Christmas, with stores reporting a clear rise in the popularity of piggy banks.
Mexico City, November 29, 2008. President Calderon sent a Bill to the Mexican Congress this week proposing to reduce the diameter of centavo coins and stop making them from the more expensive metals which have hit record prices.
Three armed thieves stormed into a Long Island home to steal a water jug full of loose change, police said. The masked suspects descended on the East Patchogue home around 2 a.m. Saturday.
LANCASTER, Pa., Nov. 4 (UPI) -- Pennsylvania state police say they would like to talk to the woman who bought a pack of cigarettes with a handful of rare coins.
The number of fake £1 coins in circulation appears to have doubled in the last five years, it was reported today.
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A big rig carrying nearly $200,000 worth of nickels crashed, killing one person and scattering the massive load of coins across Interstate 95.
A man in Wuppertal decided to protest legal fines by paying with 29,292 one-cent coins into the county court mail box, the Westdeutsche Zeitung reported on Tuesday.
An Ohio man who says he doesn't trust banks or paper money has paid part of the cost of a new truck with 16 cans full of coins.
An Ohio man with a hatred of paper money slapped down $8,000 in coins at a car dealership to buy a Chevrolet pick-up - then paid the rest by cheque.
James F. Jones walked into an office at car dealer Jake Sweeney today, plunked down 16 coffee cans of coins and said: "I want that Chevy truck," pointing to a red, 2008 half-ton Chevrolet Silverado.
Naples police said 43-year-old Laslo Mujzer swiped 42 cents from the Coastland Center Mall in Naples on Monday. Officers arrested Mujzer after a mall customer saw him fishing around in the fountain. See more irresistible headlines
One of the most important private collections of Australian historical coins and medals is about to go under the hammer in Melbourne.
The bill would require the U.S. Mint to switch from a zinc and copper penny, which costs 1.26 cents each to make, to a copper-plated steel penny, which would cost .7 cents to make, according to statistics from the Mint and Rep. Zack Space, D-Ohio, one of the measure's sponsors.
Only in one month the Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP) manages to print 784,010,000 U.S. banknotes, all of them being worth $13,501,800,000.