BRITS are urged to check their purses and take a peek in their money boxes, after an ultra rare coin sold for over 40 times ...

Social media's Coin Collecting Wizard has highlighted a particular 20p that was minted in error in 2008 - and if you have one ...

Currency isn’t just paper and coins—it’s history, culture, and power, all rolled into one. The story of Indian currency is a ...

Gareth Williams, the curator of early-medieval coinage and Viking collections at the British Museum ... it became the property of the Crown. Under the terms of the current law, treasure still ...

Canada was granted the right to self-govern in 1867, but its coins were still being minted in England until the Ottawa office of the British Royal ... die and smaller crown. New legislation ...

Before paper currency, coinage was the normal form of currency and their nature ... When in 1858 the Mughal reign ended and the British Crown gained control over 100 princely states, the images on the ...

At that time, a half crown made for a sizable gift ... thus ending the link with British Pound. The new Irish Free State government passed the Coinage Act in 1926 which empowered the Minister for ...

The discovery was made by the British Museum during a 15-year project ... The torcs, which came in a range of sizes, were buried at a time when coinage was becoming of more importance to Iron ...

That price was paid in golden guineas, the defunct British coinage – minting ceased in 1814 – that ... It is the jewel in the crown, the gleaming centrepiece of the year at Park Paddocks. The three ...

Off with his head? Perhaps “off with his crown” would be more appropriate. Coins and bank notes of Great Britain’s King Charles III are now in circulation, but His Majesty’s head is featured barren.