PHILADELPHIA (AP) — When it comes to making coins, the Mint isn’t getting its two cents worth. In some cases, it doesn’t even get half of that. A penny costs more than two cents and a nickel costs ...

A treasure hunter with a metal detector discovers a hoard of 5,000 coins from the 17th and early 18th centuries in eastern ...

Eddie Lipsman could barely contain his metal detector when he passed by a large stone in the Sussita National Park in Israel’s Galilee region. “The device went crazy, I couldn’t believe it,” he said, ...

Back in the 1970s when silver prices were soaring, investors gravitated toward an unusual silver play—pre-1965 U.S. coins ...

(NEXSTAR) — In a move potentially foretold by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), it seems the U.S. could be on the verge of ending penny production. President Donald Trump on Sunday said ...

For more than a thousand years, the primary purpose of Britain’s Royal Mint has been to make coins. It has forged into metal the likeness of England’s kings and queens from Alfred the Great, the ninth ...

Checked your rare coin collection recently? You could be sitting on a fortune if you locate this special piece in your stash, so do you have one?

Discovering ancient treasure resulted in a major payday for the lucky finder. A 34-year-old archaeologist named George Ridgway found a collection of more than 680 gold and silver coins with his metal ...