The Final Days of Penny Production There are ongoing discussions about the future of penny production, though no official ...

The 1980s might seem like yesterday to some collectors, yet coins from this decade are commanding surprisingly high prices at ...

Continued deep-sea expeditions in Colombia have unearthed a centuries-old shipwreck. Colombian authorities are now reporting ...

Pieces once traded during the Greek and Roman eras or salvaged from Spanish shipwrecks continue to be popular with artisans ...

The day the penny died After 232 years, on Nov. 12, the Treasury Department stopped minting pennies. As the New York Times ...

A faint light glows from the back of a medieval tavern, with a crowd of people huddled around it. They’re all watching one of ...

They appear digitally on his friends' online profiles on a site called hi5, which is a social network like Facebook or MySpace. "They can't eat the cake. It is an image -- the thing that it represents ...

The limestone sarcophagus, found in the Óbuda district, was sealed with metal clamps and molten lead, keeping it intact over ...

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If you’re from the Midwest and are a huge fan of Jack’s Donuts, I have bad news for you. The Indiana-based chain of donut shops filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy recently, placing the popular sweet treats ...

Two metal detectorists uncovered a Roman treasure hoard containing hundreds of ancient coins in a meadow near Bunnik, a town in the Dutch province of Utrecht. The cache dates to the years around the ...

A lucky individual in Sweden discovered a cauldron filled with medieval rings, pendants and several thousand coins that were all remarkably well-preserved. In a translated statement from the County ...