In a nation where money is counted in pounds and pence, the measure of coins is given great weight — and a lavish ceremony.

Britain's new £1 coin has officially been released. It is 12-sided and composed of two different metals. The Royal Mint has made more than 1.5 billion of the new coins. The old ones will have to ...

The Festival of Britain marked the centenary of The Great Exhibition in 1851, and was also the first major national event after the end of the Second World War. It came at a time when wartime ...

Several dozen other coins, made of an alloy of gold, silver and copper, come from what is now Great Britain and were stamped with the face of the Celtic king Cunobelinus, who reigned between 9 and ...

The list of coveted, valuable coins included one coin from China, one from Great Britain and four from the United States. Stack’s Bowers referred to the list as “awe-inspiring for numismatic ...

Trump wrote in a post Sunday night on his Truth Social site. Asked about the move and whether 1p and 2p coins would remain in Britain, the Prime Minister’s official spokesman said ...

During this period, the northern limit of the Roman Empire was the Rhine River, where Roman troops were set up to fend off attacks from Germanic tribes and to launch forays into Great Britain. Of the ...

The 404 coins, including 44 from Britain, are believed to be a mix of military pay and the spoils of war, stashed by a Roman soldier after he returned to the European continent Eli Wizevich ...