LOS ANGELES -- It looked like the "deal of the century," police said, a couple of guys down on their luck on Skid Row, selling valuable old silver coins for $20 apiece. It was a pretty good deal, too, ...

Got a bag or container of loose change hanging around your home? Maybe a a childhood collection or a keepsake passed down from generations? It may be worth looking to see if any of the coins are ...

Two boys found some rare 600-year-old coins under a church in Norway and kept the treasure in a box for decades, archaeologists said and photos show. Photo from Carl Fredrik Wahr-Hansen Vemmestad via ...

From a distance, the slate gray roof and central white tower of the Brahekyrkan church appear charming. The idyllic building is situated on a small island in southern Sweden and surrounded by a ...

An almost 400-year-old silver coin found in a field in Maryland suggests that the remains of a nearby fort are all that's left of one of the earliest English colonial settlements in the Americas, ...

Don't just spend your old coins – it's worth checking to see if they have more value than the number dictated on the front. That's because there are plenty of silvers and coppers in circulation that ...

(JTA) — A rare silver coin dating from approximately 67-68 CE was found in dirt from excavations at the City of David park in Jerusalem. The lucky discovery was made by none other than an 11-year-old ...

A broken 2,500-year-old silver coin unearthed near Jerusalem is rare evidence that early currency was used in ancient Judea, according to archaeologists. It's one of only a handful of coins of this ...

A pair of boys decided to go treasure hunting in Norway. They figured the local church was a good spot to search and crawled underneath the building. Buried in the dirt, the boys discovered several ...

The find is rare evidence that such early coins were being used for commerce in the region. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A ...