What better way to celebrate America’s 250th birthday than by owning a piece of Lady Liberty? Americans can now own a piece of history, thanks to Alchemist Mint, a precious metals operation based in Rhode Island. The mint announced last week that it will be making a limited-edition coin, named Lady Liberty Enlightening the World, … Read more
A penny saved could be $800,000 earned. After pennies were discontinued in November, the last 1-cent coins minted suddenly became worth a fortune. A haul of these special pennies reportedly went for an eye-popping $16.76 million at a special auction in California held on behalf of the US Mint. The sale marked the “highest value … Read more
LONDON — Britain’s Royal Mint is celebrating Freddie Mercury with a new coin design that marks 40 years since his iconic Live Aid concert performance. The coin features an image of the Queen frontman, head thrown back and holding the microphone stand mid-performance. A musical stave that runs around the edge of the coin represents his four-octave vocal range. … Read more
One man really felt the force of his accumulated coins when he finally cashed in his Star Wars piggy bank. In a viral Threads post, Eli Piatt (@jsun4hees) shared a photo of his Coinstar receipt from a grocery store in Portland, Oregon, showing he walked away with $597.45 after dumping a decade of collected coins … Read more
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 the Jerusalem Archaeological Park, located in the Old City and just a stone’s throw away from the Temple Mount. The discovery was announced by the … Read more
All in all, it was hiding behind just another brick in the wall. A collection of rare gold coins nearly lost to history after its owner passed away has fetched nearly $4 million at auction. The gilded stash had been amassed over a lifetime by numismatist Paul Narce, who lived in Castillonnès, France, until his … Read more
These two went from trail walkers to treasure hunters. Two hikers stumbled across a mysterious treasure worth thousands, if not millions of dollars — and experts are baffled. The pair was walking along a trail in the Krkonoše Mountains in northeastern Czech Republic in February when they noticed an aluminum box sticking out of a … Read more
Stumbling upon loose change has never been so lucrative. A pair of hikers in Czechia hit the jackpot after stumbling upon a cache of gold coins and jewels worth over $300,000 — which some historians speculate could’ve been purposefully hidden from the Nazis. “When he [one of the hikers] opened it, my jaw dropped,” said … Read more
She paid up — but it was payback. When Marina Smith’s ex-boyfriend asked her to send through $446 she owed him for a vacation, the model and influencer decided to exact revenge. “Since he wanted it that way, I paid down to the last cent,” Smith, 34, cheekily told Need To Know. After the couple … Read more
Archaeologists discovered ancient gold coins in an unexpected location during a recent excavation in Bulgaria. The five Byzantine coins, which date back to the reign of Justinian the Great, were uncovered by archaeologists digging at a site in the northern Bulgarian village of Debnevo. The excavation was announced by Dr. Stiliyan Ivanov, an associate professor at the … Read more
A unique item that is worth thousands was recently found at the bottom of a toffee tin. Wotton Auction Rooms, an auction house based in Gloucestershire, England, recently came across an old coin when evaluating items brought in from a private vendor. Auctioneer Joseph Trinder said the coin is a continental dollar measuring 38 mm across and is made … Read more
It’s a bone-chilling discovery. Archeologists at Pompeii have recovered well-preserved skeletal remains of a man and woman who died clutching treasures of the time. The woman was found on a bed surrounded by gold, silver and bronze coins, along with jewelry that included pearl and gold earrings, and the man was not far from her. … Read more
The expression “one man’s trash is another’s man’s treasure” is near and dear to one Pennsylvania waste management facility that bridges the divide between trash and treasure on a massive scale – collecting $10 million in lost change since its inception. “What we have is a series of assorted materials,” Rebecca Guardino, Director of Ash … Read more
This illustrated the perils of putting one’s money where their mouth is. Another day, another unlikely item ended up in a poorly chosen orifice. This time, a California teen had to be hospitalized after swallowing a quarter, which wound up getting stuck sideways inside his air passage like a coin in a slot machine. The … Read more
A Norwegian man recently came forward to disclose that he had found several medieval coins as a child and hid them for six decades – until now. Jan Gunnar Fugelsnes told Møre og Romsdal County Municipality officials that he and his brother were adventuring under the floorboards of Edøy Church in 1964 when he found … Read more
He was a magnetic man of steel. Doctors at a New Delhi hospital removed 39 coins and 37 magnets from a man’s intestine after he swallowed the metals under the assumption that ”zinc helps in bodybuilding.” X-rays taken before the surgery inside Sir Ganga Ram Hospital show massive metal clots forming in the 26-year-old’s intestines … Read more
The animal rights group PETA wants to replace Punxsutawney Phil, the beloved groundhog that is used to forecast weather during the annual Groundhog Day celebration in Pennsylvania, with a gold coin, the group said this week. The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wrote an open letter on Monday to the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club in Pennsylvania, … Read more
Heads or tails? Choose wisely — the chances aren’t as equal as you think they are. Scientists have discovered that there’s a natural bias that occurs when flipping a coin, according to a pre-print study published on arXiv. Researchers at the University of Amsterdam were hoping to get an answer to the question: “If you … Read more
An eight-year-old boy has unearthed an extremely rare silver coin while playing in a sandbox, dating to about 1,800 years before he was born. The young boy, who was identified only by his first name, Bjarne, was playing in a sandbox at his primary school in Germany when he made the incredible discovery. He rushed … Read more
A man in Kentucky hit the jackpot after he discovered over 700 coins from the American Civil War era on his rural farm. The findings have been nicknamed the “Great Kentucky Hoard” and include a group of 1863 Double Eagles and hundreds of U.S. gold dollars dated from 1850 to 1862, as well as a … Read more