The cent – often called the penny after the British coin – was first issued with Lincoln’s portrait in 1909. The year marked a century since Lincoln’s birth. And it was the first American coin to bear an image of a real person. Earlier “heads” sides of coins had depicted the my...
As ever, rarity was key to its value. Only ten such coins were known to exist. This one was in excellent condition, with just a tiny crack on the reverse – not bad for a coin over 1,600 years old. And as with the Sestertius of Hadrian, the engravers of this coin were key to ...
no radiation suits, and wielding hoses used for spraying down any old local town fire. They arrived amazingly quickly — at 1:28 a.m., less than five minutes after the explosion — a testament to their readiness. But as they climbed onto the roof of reactor No. 4 to hurl water...
Sovereigns have long been a staple of the British coinage system, as these gold pieces were popular worldwide. Outside of the British Royal MInt, both the Royal Australian Mint and Ottawa Mint produced small runs of thegold sovereignduring the earlier part of the 20th century. Struck from 190...
The quadrans was a low-value Roman bronze coin worth one quarter of an as. The quadrans was issued from the beginning of cast bronze coins during the Roman
and the Nazis confiscated millions of dollars worth of art and other precious objects from the Austrian branch of the family (a portion of these were returned by the Austrian government in 1998). Over the years, palatial Rothschild estates were donated to the British and French governments and ...
The Colombian government said Thursday it will try to raise objects from the 1708shipwreck of the galleon San Jose, which is believed to contain a cargo worth billions of dollars. The 315-year-old wreck, often called the"holy grail" of shipwrecks, has been controversial, because i...
Though nearly 100 Ides of March coins made in silver are known, this is only the third example known in gold. Of the other two, one is in the British Museum on loan from a private collector and the other is in the Deutsche Bundesbank collection. ...