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Rare Roman coin fetches nearly £5,000 at auction
A Roman coin that is believed to be the first of its kind found in the UK has sold for nearly £5,000. Ron Walters, 76, from Kingswinford, West Midlands, found the coin with his metal detector in Wall ...
The Mirror29d
One rare British coin is worth £72,000 - here's how to check if you have one
Ever tossed aside loose change without thinking twice? One particular British coin may make you wish you hadn't, with the potential to fetch a hefty sum. Such a remarkable coin is none other than ...
Tiny error to spot on 2p coin that makes it worth over £1,000 – is one wedged down the back of your sofa?
IF YOU spot this tiny error on your 2p coin, it could be worth more than £1,000. The rare piece, minted in 1983, has become ...
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John Lennon honored on UK coin collection in what would have been his 85th year
John Lennon is being honored in a specially minted British coin collection to mark the year the Beatles great and peace advocate would have turned 85, the Royal Mint said Friday.The coin ...
The Traveller Collection's $100 million coin trove heads to NAC auction
A collection of 15,000 historical coins, known as the Traveller Collection, is set to be auctioned by Numismatica Ars Classica (NAC), with experts estimating its value at over $100 million, according ...
The Sun11d
Rare 50p coin sells for more than 240 times its face value – check how to know if you’re sitting on a goldmine
The Royal Mint, the official maker of British coins ... has become one of the most talked about collectors’ coins in the last 15 years. It was originally released in 2009 to celebrate the ...
$100 million coin collection, buried for decades, up for auction
A vast coin collection, much of which was buried underground for more than 50 years, is expected to fetch in excess of ... “When it came to cataloguing the British coins from the Traveller Collection ...
Daily Record19d
Rare British coin 'worth £72,000' sparks hunt despite 'only a handful' in existence - could you have one?
This coin was sold for £40,000 in 2004 and rose to £45,000 within just two years. The mystery behind ... "This is one of the rarest British coins because only a few were ever produced as part ...
Liverpool Echo19d
Unique gold coin signed by The Beatles' Paul McCartney sells for $600,000 at auction
The unique gold 5kg piece realized a total price of $600,000, now ranking as one of the most valuable modern British ... The coin is being released by the Royal Mint in the year of what would ...
How two friends found £3m treasure and ended up in jail
But what Ms Morgan did not immediately realise was that Powell, alongside his friend Layton Davies, had been convicted of ...
Daily Mail29d
In the money! How 50p coin could be worth £25k thanks to tiny error
These were put into circulation over the 2016 Easter weekend with it also marking the first time a fictional character appeared on a British coin. Due to their popularity, the following year the ...
CNN17d
$100 million coin collection, buried for decades, up for auction
A vast coin collection, much of which was buried underground for more than 50 years, is expected to fetch ... “When it came to cataloguing the British coins from the Traveller Collection I ...