My rude ex requested a refund from our vacation — here’s how I got revenge

My rude ex requested a refund from our vacation — here’s how I got revenge

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 stumble upon priceless gold coins from ancient empire in unusual location

Archaeologists stumble upon priceless gold coins from ancient empire in unusual location

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

Rare coin from 1776 found in bottom of toffee tin to sell at auction

Rare coin from 1776 found in bottom of toffee tin to sell at auction

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

Skeletons of man, woman clutching coins found in ‘invaluable’ discovery at Pompeii site

Skeletons of man, woman clutching coins found in ‘invaluable’ discovery at Pompeii site

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

Waste management facility rakes in millions of dollars worth of loose change thrown in trash

Waste management facility rakes in millions of dollars worth of loose change thrown in trash

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

Teen gets quarter stuck in throat during ill-advised stunt — even doctors were shocked 

Teen gets quarter stuck in throat during ill-advised stunt — even doctors were shocked 

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

Man reveals ancient coins he found under a church 60 years ago: ‘Just children on a treasure hunt’

Man reveals ancient coins he found under a church 60 years ago: ‘Just children on a treasure hunt’

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

Weightlifter ate 39 coins, 37 magnets because he thought ‘zinc helps in bodybuilding’: report

Weightlifter ate 39 coins, 37 magnets because he thought ‘zinc helps in bodybuilding’: report

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

PETA calls to replace beloved Groundhog Day star Punxsutawney Phil with gold coin

PETA calls to replace beloved Groundhog Day star Punxsutawney Phil with gold coin

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

Coin tosses do not have 50/50 odds — here’s how to pick the right side

Coin tosses do not have 50/50 odds — here’s how to pick the right side

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

8-year-old boy finds 1,800-year-old silver coin in school sandbox

8-year-old boy finds 1,800-year-old silver coin in school sandbox

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

Man discovers 700 Civil War coins worth millions buried at Kentucky farm

Man discovers 700 Civil War coins worth millions buried at Kentucky farm

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

Rare ‘doubled die’ penny sells for $2K — how to spot one

Rare ‘doubled die’ penny sells for K — how to spot one

That’s a lot of coin. A Lincoln wheat penny minted in 1955 sold this month for $2,050 on eBay because it contains a rare feature known as a “double die error.” The manufacturing error occurs when the design on the die is mistakenly doubled in the hubbing process, resulting in two identical images on the coin that … Read more

Couple finds $800K in rare gold coins — hidden under kitchen floor

Couple finds 0K in rare gold coins — hidden under kitchen floor

Penny for your thoughts? While undertaking a new home renovation project, a couple from Ellerby in North Yorkshire, England, hit the jackpot after they found a cup filled with 264 gold coins worth more than $800,000 underneath their kitchen floor.  The pair initially thought that they had come across an electrical cord six inches under … Read more

Actor Anna May Wong to become first Asian American featured on quarter

Actor Anna May Wong to become first Asian American featured on quarter

Movie star Anna May Wong will be the first Asian American person to be featured on a US coin. Wong will appear on the back of a quarter as part of the US Mint’s American Women Quarters Program, with coins set to be shipped in 2023 through 2025. According to the US Mint, Wong’s career … Read more

Check your wallet: Century-old nickel sells for millions

Check your wallet: Century-old nickel sells for millions

Check your pockets and behind the couch cushions — you could be sitting on millions! A century-old nickel — minted in 1913 — recently sold for a cool $4.2 million. It is one of only five known five-cent-denomination coins that are 1913-dated and have the Liberty Head design. Two of these extremely rare coins are … Read more