NumisMysteries

Obviously I haven't been posting, involved in other projects. But here's a good one. They were metal-detecting for tent pegs in a fi...

How did copper coins, some dating back a thousand years, arrive on a remote island beach off Australia? An expedition has been formed to lea...

As is often noted here and elsewhere, China, probably among others, is source of scads of fake coins, some of a sort that don't even see...

Most of us are aware of moves afoot to eliminate the U.S. penny which is worth more as metal than as buying power. But the penny is hardly t...

The battle over interpretation of "theft of culture" laws, regulations and policies has had an effect in many collecting areas, an...

An estimated $200,000 in gold coins was stolen from the home of an apparently eccentric and decidedly reclusive Vermont resident whose death...

Museum shops are a great source of reproductions of coins of all sorts. I have an album of what I called fakes, many of which are more appro...