Lobsang Lama, a Nepali layperson, hands out crisp 10-rupee notes (the equivalent of about 8 cents) to each of the seated monks and ... up either to be a universal monarch or a supreme spiritual ...

At the far end of the room, squeezed into an arched niche, is a ten-foot-tall seated Buddha with immense ... the Bengali poet Alaol wrote of the monarch at the time of his visit in the 1660s ...

A resident of a southwest German town working on a construction project unearthed a stash of medieval coins minted around 1320 AD. The value of the roughly 1,600 coins recovered was deemed enough ...

Although it might sound counter-intuitive, cleaning your rare coins can degrade their value. Old coins tend to collect grit — and character — over time, which is normal. If you clean away the ...

A resident of a southwest German town working on a construction project unearthed a stash of medieval coins minted around 1320 AD. The value of the roughly 1,600 coins recovered was deemed enough to ...

While it’s possible coins you think could earn you a huge sum won’t, it’s worth a try. Here’s how you can get your old coins valued by the Royal Mint. The Royal Mint urges anyone with ...

And so the 83s are zinc.” Besides finding an old coin that is made of silver or copper, errors in currency are another rare find Robbins looks for. He said most people do not even notice some ...

CREVE COEUR — Leann Adams, 63, carried old coin books, a fist-sized bag of loose change, a ring missing the center stone and two silver serving dishes into an appraisal shop lined with customers ...

He spent six years scanning the same fields in Wall Heath near Dudley every spring and fall until he uncovered the 1,900-year-old coin, considered the first of its kind found in the United Kingdom.