Confederate paper money was a promise to exchange the bill for gold or silver, but only after the Confederacy won the war.
The coin, identified as a 1652 Massachusetts threepence, is the rarest of four rare coin designs struck between 1652 and 1682 ...
A rare 17th Century coin sold at auction for a record-breaking $2.52 million eight years after it was found in an old cabinet ...
Collectors snapped at an unprecedented opportunity to acquire a coveted 1652 threepence coin from America's first mint at ...
Like all dealers, Bob loves a coin or token that has a history. Where did it come from? Whose collection was it in? Who are the dealers who moved it from hand to hand? He told me that tokens from the ...
Settlers in Massachusetts needed cash, but England wouldn't send any. So, they created their own mint in Boston and began ...
An American silver coin dating back to the 17th century, before the United States was founded, has sold for a record-breaking $2.52 million at auction, eight years after it was discovered in an ...
(WKRC/CNN Newsource) - A silver coin that was minted in the American colonies before the ... but after "an exhilarating" 12-minute-long bidding war it sold for $2.52 million.
An American silver coin from before the American Revolution that was recovered in an old cabinet in Amsterdam sold for $2.52 million at an auction, decimating the previous record. The threepence ...