An ancient Celtic coin discovered in a field in northeast England could fetch over $5,000. A metal detectorist in Lelley, ...

A 19th century coin widely considered to be “the King of Silver Dollars” is hitting the auction block next week as part of ...

Legend holds that the city of Portland, Oregon, was nearly called Boston. A coin toss in 1845 between Francis Pettygrove, who hailed from a different Portland, in Maine, and Asa Lovejoy, from Boston ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

In sports, coin tosses are often used to decide who goes first, or pick who goes to bat for the first part of the game. It seems fair. You'd assume that as coins have two sides and you introduce a ...

A horde of coins found in Transylvania in 1713 contained several unlike other Roman coins in style and make, with enigmatic features including bungled legends and historically mixed motifs. The four ...

History is full of artifacts that later turn out to be fakes, but very occasionally the opposite can happen. New analysis of ancient Roman coins long dismissed as forgeries has found they appear to be ...