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 ...

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 ...

Canada’s coins are more than just pocket change—they’re national symbols with stories worth telling. The Loonie and Toonie, introduced in 1987 and 1996 respectively, didn’t just replace banknotes—they ...

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 ...

Symbolizing the Great Depression and the history of American togetherness, the 1933 Double Eagle is currently the most valuable coin in the world. Although 445,000 of these U.S. gold coins were minted ...

What makes a coin valuable? It's not the numbers etched on the metal, it's the story behind the piece. That's why coin collectors -- or numismatics -- stockpile pennies. That's why silver dollars draw ...