Norway's largest Viking coin hoard features 2,970 silver coins minted in England and Germany, reflecting foreign influence on ...

No matter the name, past or present, the pound has been the United Kingdom currency since Anglo-Saxon times. Yet the coin used today has only been around since 1983. And this year, the Royal Mint will ...

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (WPVI) -- "I, like many of my colleagues, was a coin collector from a very young age," said Mark Schimel. Schimel's curiosity about coins led him to Stack's Bowers Galleries ...

People all over the world resolve arguments and make decisions using the time-honored tradition of flipping a coin, but did you ever wonder how the practice started? It turns out that there s not a ...

Doug Barton is a numismatist — a coin and currency collector. He is also a docent at the Great Bridge Battlefield and Historic Waterways Museum in Chesapeake. Barton blends his hobby with his interest ...

Coin collecting has been a popular hobby for generations, but it is becoming increasingly difficult to find new pieces due to the decline in physical cash use.