Time to dispose of your childhood coin collection? When I was growing up in Zurich, the Swiss authorities stopped using silver to mint the franc, and instead switched to a base-metal alloy. It was ...

If you have inherited a coin collection, selling the collection (either as a whole or as individual pieces) can be lucrative ...

DELPHOS — Bruce Maag, owner of Coins Currency and Collectibles, was born and raised in Ottoville and began coin collecting when he was young. “An elderly lady on one of my numerous paper routes was ...

For the past century, one of the most valuable collections of coins ever assembled has been hidden away in Denmark, its location known only to a handful of designated stewards. The situation was ...

I’m visiting my parents on Cape Cod this month. My father recently turned 90, and my mother decided to open the long-buried safe where my father kept his coin collection. This offered a brief moment ...

A retired Army veteran and former police officer spent a majority of his life building up his prized coin collection valued at more than $100,000. Earlier this week, someone stole nearly the entire ...

GHENT, N.Y. — Scratch, an illustrated column about money that runs in the Sunday New York Times, last week addressed a subject close to my heart: coin collecting. My daughter Lucy brought the column ...

American commerce was anarchic during George Washington's first term as President. Merchants used a jumble of coins from Europe because the United States lacked a mint of its own. So in 1792 ...

Following the death of the Danish butter magnate Lars Emil Bruun in 1923, his will had a curious order: His vast accumulation of coins, notes and medals, amassed over more than six decades, should be ...

A burglar stole the author's coin collection. Source: Rafael Classen/Pexels I have a lucky dime. Well, that’s what I call it. I’ve had it for 50 years, at least this time around. You see, I had it ...