The era of the penny is nearing its end: starting early next year, the Treasury Department announced that it will end the ...

We were Treasure hunting for old silver coins, and rings, and we found a deep military M69 mortar round aka bomb used in WWII! This video is full of silver ring finds colonial copper coins as well ...

A cryptocurrency is a digital asset purchased with real money but traded through a computer network using technology. The ...

The abundance of small change in nickel and copper cent pieces must shortly prepare the way for the withdrawal of some of the smaller denominations of the fractional currency. We could now ...

The combination of “copper” and “penny” might not seem like the best formula for valuable coins considering that you can find higher denominations in gold and silver. But finding the right ...

while today’s penny is made of copper and zinc. During the colonial period, people used a mixture of coins from other countries. A popular coin was the British penny, which our cent is named after.

Copper coins facilitated trade across the vast empire ... Whether the Romans’ control of Cypriot copper mines, or Britain’s diverse colonial copper sources during the Industrial Revolution ...

In May 1652, the Colonial Legislature established a mint in Boston, in what the historical society called “an act of defiant trespass upon the Crown’s prerogative to mint coins by a colony ...