The Canadian coin known as “Big Maple Leaf” weighs almost 221 pounds. It is made of 99.999 percent pure gold, with a market value of more than $4 million. The Royal Canadian Mint produced only five ...

Two rare coins minted in England to ward against Viking raids have been discovered in Denmark, where Vikings made them into ...

A massive gold coin weighing in at 221 pounds was improbably nicked by thieves from Berlin’s Bode Museum yesterday, Monday, March 27, at around 3:30 a.m. The coin, known as “Big Maple Leaf,” is a ...

A mysterious coin once used as bus fare in Leeds in the 1950s was identified as ancient Phoenician currency. The bronze coin dates back roughly 2,000 years to Gadir, a Carthaginian settlement in ...

Ilê Sartuzi put original coin in museum donation box as part of project about number of foreign objects in its collection An artist took a historical coin from its display case in the British Museum ...

Colorado Springs’ nationally known money museum on Thursday announced the thefts of nearly 300 rare coins — a $1 million inside-job pulled off five years ago by a man hired to watch over the ...