The Roger Bannister 50p coin was sold for £483.63 on eBay. The coin was minted in 2004 to celebrate 50 years since Sir Roger Bannister ran a mile in under four minutes.

The San José was returning to Europe laden with extraordinary wealth meant to fund Spain's war efforts when British warships intercepted it near the fortified port city of Cartagena, Colombia. The ...

DHAKA, Bangladesh -- A strong, 5.5-magnitude earthquake shook central Bangladesh on Friday, killing at least eight people and ...

Archaeologists have identified more than a dozen ancient canoes that Indigenous people apparently left behind in a ...

The artifacts are the first treasures to be recovered from the wreckage of the San José, a Spanish galleon that was sunk by ...

The doubloons, dollars and denarii of the American Numismatic Society will leave their overlooked home in Manhattan for a ...

Just days earlier, United States Treasurer Brandon Beach had struck the final circulating one-cent coin in a ceremony at the ...

The US has stopped minting pennies after 232 years, turning the copper-plated coin into a relic — and a window into a ...

The Royal Mint produced a historic piece to celebrate the wedding of Prince Charles and Princess Diana in 1981, and now one is being sold online for a huge sum - but a coin expert has issued a warning ...

An extremely rare Australian coin has been listed for auction in Sydney and is estimated to be worth $120,000. The "holey ...

Steve Dean, along with friends Glenn Church and Ed Denovan, discovered the valuable hoard of around 400 coins in a farmer's ...

People trying to save money will “pinch pennies,” and the phrase “pennies from heaven” still describes an unexpected windfall ...