Eight years ago, in the back of an old ... this coin: It was minted in colonial Boston in 1652, more than a century before the Thirteen Colonies declared their independence from Britain.

Last year we revealed that eager coin collectors would be handed the challenge of hunting down 26 new 10p coins, featuring an A-Z of what makes Britain great. Some 2.6million of the coins were ...

A rare coin expert says Brits should check any old coins they have lying around ... and was known as 'Britain's least loved coin', with people commonly said 'not to bother to bend down in the ...

The coins are thousands of years old, the Netherlands' Cultural Heritage ... with the only other comparable discovery having been made in Great Britain. Two metal detectorists made the discovery ...