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Rare Coin Treasure Hunt Kicks Off in Boston

New York, Philadelphia, and Miami will be next

(Newser) - Americans with a taste for adventure and an interest in rare coins have a new opportunity to hunt for treasure—no passport required. Stack's Bowers Galleries, a well-known rare coin dealer and auction house, is celebrating the 90th anniversary of its first auction by launching a public treasure hunt...

Treasury Defends Plans for $1 Trump Coin

Department argues 1866 law doesn't apply in this case

(Newser) - The Treasury Department is defending its decision to mint a $1 coin featuring President Trump's likeness on both sides, brushing off critics who say the move flouts a Civil War-era law that bars living people from appearing on American money. The controversy erupted after draft designs for the...

Sunken Treasure Fleet Gives Up $1M in Coins

Salvage crews found 1K silver coins, plus more gold artifacts, over the summer

(Newser) - Treasure hunters combing Florida's aptly named Treasure Coast have struck gold, uncovering over 1,000 gold and silver coins from the 1715 Spanish Treasure Fleet. Salvagers with Queens Jewels, LLC, announced the haul—over a thousand silver "Reales" and five gold "Escudos," plus rare gold...

Woman Stopped by Customs Triggered Quite a Bust

Travel check in Mallorca leads to uncovering of a major haul of stolen artifacts

(Newser) - A routine travel check in Spain led to a major trove of stolen artifacts, highlighting a growing criminal trade in ancient treasures. In October, Spanish customs officials stopped a woman traveling from Mallorca to Germany and found 55 coins and a ring in her luggage, per the Washington Post...

The US Penny Is Going Away
The US Penny
Is Going Away
May 22, 2025 11:07 AM CDT

The US Penny Is Going Away

Last ones will go into circulation early next year

(Newser) - The end of the American penny is near: The US Mint will stop making new ones within a year, reports the Wall Street Journal . Specifically, the Treasury Department this month ordered its last "blanks" from which the pennies are made, and it won't make any more once those...

Truck Spills 8M Dimes on Texas Highway

Most were recovered, but they might not smell so good

(Newser) - A predawn crash Tuesday near Alvord, Texas, left a sea of dimes scattered across US Route 287 after an 18-wheeler hauling a load for the US Mint overturned about 50 miles north of Fort Worth. The truck, carrying $800,000 worth of freshly minted coins—8 million dimes—rolled...

Incredible Coin Collection Was Buried for Decades

Man who spent the 1930s building collection of 15K coins feared Nazi invasion

(Newser) - A coin collection with an intriguing backstory is so big—and so valuable—that auctioneers Numismatica Ars Classica are splitting the sale into 15 auctions over the next four years. The auctioneers say the collection of around 15,000 gold and silver coins, some of them thousands of years old,...

A Specific Worry Grows Over Trump's Crypto Coin

Critics say foreign buyers looking to 'curry favor' with the president can easily do so

(Newser) - Just before he became president again, Donald Trump launched a cryptocurrency coin called $TRUMP, one that has made him billions on paper. The launch of what's known as a memecoin has critics pointing to potential ethical issues, and one in particular appears to be gaining traction—the role of...

Paul McCartney Gets His Own Coin




Paul McCartney
Gets His Own Coin
Dec 6, 2024 1:17 PM CST

Paul McCartney Gets His Own Coin

The Royal Mint has been busy

(Newser) - Beatles legend Paul McCartney is being honored in a specially minted British coin collection. The Royal Mint, which has struck the coins of monarchs from Alfred the Great in the ninth century to King Charles III, revealed Friday that it is launching a McCartney coin collection for collectors to buy....

Coin Struck at Boston Mint in 1652 Sells for Small Fortune

Threepence coin fetches a record $2.5M

(Newser) - It was worth a mere threepence when struck at the new Boston Mint in 1652, but the rare silver coin is now worth more than $2.5 million after a bidding war at auction. The price is a record for a non-gold coin struck before the establishment of the US...

This Rare Dime May Fetch $500K at Auction
Rare 1975 Dime Sells
for More Than $500K
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
Nov 2, 2024 12:20 PM CDT

Rare 1975 Dime Sells for More Than $500K

Whereabouts of dime with missing letter had been a mystery for decades

(Newser) - An incredibly rare dime has sold for the equivalent of more than 5 million ordinary dimes. The coin, whose whereabouts had remained a mystery since the late 1970s, sold for $506,250 in an online auction that concluded Sunday, according to auction house GreatCollections, per the AP . The dime is...

Cops Recover 40K Stolen Coins Based on Kids Show

The Bluey 'dollarbucks' were selling for 10 times their value online, police said

(Newser) - Bluey and his friends are safe and sound after a wild adventure involving thieves, stolen coins, and a three-month investigation. Police in Australia recovered some $26,000 in stolen coins bearing characters from the children's TV show Bluey on Tuesday. The Australian Mint produced the limited edition "dollarbucks"...

Metal Detector Went Crazy, Found 2.5K Ancient Coins

And the stash is now worth $5.58M

(Newser) - Adam Staples knew he'd found something when his metal detector let out a beep. Soon "it was just 'beep beep, beep beep, beep beep,'" he recalls. In a farmer's field in southwest England, Staples and six friends had found a hoard of more than...

A Truly Magical Coin Collection Is Finally for Sale

Danish butter magnate Lars Emil Bruun ordered it be held for 100 years

(Newser) - It will be the "most expensive international coin collection ever sold," per CNN . And it's one that has been patiently waiting to hit the auction block for a century. As the network explains, it belonged to Danish butter magnate Lars Emil Bruun, who specified in his will...

Art Student Pulls Off an Unusual Museum Theft

Ile Sartuzi steals coin at British Museum, redeposits in donation box as part of thesis

(Newser) - It's one of the more unusual museum heists you'll read about—the thief kept his bounty for only a few minutes before returning it, publicly documenting the entire thing. As the Art Newspaper reports, the strangeness unfolded at the British Museum on June 18. That's the day...

'Best Open Secret Ever' Could Sell for $72M

Butter magnate LE Bruun had asked that coin collection be safeguarded for 100 years before sale

(Newser) - 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 LE Bruun, stipulated in his will that his 20,000-piece collection be safeguarded for 100 years...

We Throw Out a Massive Number of Coins Each Year

And one company is scooping them up by the millions

(Newser) - Americans' coins don't just end up between the couch cushions. They also land in the trash, in great quantities, a fact that sustainable-waste processing company Reworld is taking advantage of. The Wall Street Journal profiles the company's now-seven-year effort to retrieve coins from our waste. "At a...

George Michael Gets His Own Coins
George Michael
Gets His Own Coins
Feb 26, 2024 11:20 AM CST

George Michael Gets His Own Coins

Wham! frontman will grace front of limited-edition currency issued by UK's Royal Mint

(Newser) - You gotta have more than "Faith" to pocket the new George Michael coin. A commemorative minting of coins that rolled out in the UK on Monday ranged in price from a couple of banknotes to a small fortune as the late musician continues to rack up posthumous honors years...

Zoo's Alligator Had 70 Coins in His Stomach
Zoo's Alligator Had
$7 in His Belly
Feb 20, 2024 7:43 AM CST

Zoo's Alligator Had $7 in His Belly

Thibodaux of Nebraska's Henry Doorly Zoo is now a bit lighter

(Newser) - A zoo alligator was carrying around quite a bit of extra weight until a stomach procedure to remove 70 US coins. The 36-year-old American alligator named Thibodaux, an "iconic" resident of Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha, Nebraska, due to the leucism that causes his white coloration, was undergoing routine...

Thieves Who Allegedly Swiped 2M Dimes Indicted

Feds say the men stole $235K in 10-cent coins off of a tractor-trailer from the US Mint

(Newser) - Federal authorities have released more details and unsealed charges in the theft of more than 2 million dimes earlier this year from a tractor-trailer that had picked up the coins from the US Mint in Philadelphia. The truck driver was bound for Miami when he pulled into a parking lot...

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