Time to dispose of your childhood coin collection? When I was growing up in Zurich, the Swiss authorities stopped using silver to mint the franc, and instead switched to a base-metal alloy. It was ...

For the past century, one of the most valuable collections of coins ever assembled has been hidden away in Denmark, its location known only to a handful of designated stewards. The situation was ...

American commerce was anarchic during George Washington's first term as President. Merchants used a jumble of coins from Europe because the United States lacked a mint of its own. So in 1792 ...

A vast coin collection, much of which was buried underground for more than 50 years, is expected to fetch in excess of $100 million at auction, according to experts. The Traveller Collection, thought ...

DELPHOS — Bruce Maag, owner of Coins Currency and Collectibles, was born and raised in Ottoville and began coin collecting when he was young. “An elderly lady on one of my numerous paper routes was ...

I’m visiting my parents on Cape Cod this month. My father recently turned 90, and my mother decided to open the long-buried safe where my father kept his coin collection. This offered a brief moment ...

Back in 1999, Jennifer Scott, now 49, heard on the news that the U.S. Mint was issuing quarters to honor each of the 50 states. She began collecting the quarters, each featuring a design specific to ...

The vast coin collection of a Danish butter magnate is set to finally go on sale a century after his death, and could fetch up to $72 million. Lars Emil Bruun, also known as L.E. Bruun, stipulated in ...

One of the key principles of economics when it comes to examining wealth and how it is accumulated is to look at what’s known as “generational wealth.” That is, what monetary assets, investments and ...

Q. I inherited my father’s coin collection when he died 15 years ago. With the elevated gold price, I’ve recently sold ...

A burglar stole the author's coin collection. Source: Rafael Classen/Pexels I have a lucky dime. Well, that’s what I call it. I’ve had it for 50 years, at least this time around. You see, I had it ...