SINGAPORE (Reuters) - In a world of market volatility, rare coins might be worth their weight in gold - and maybe even more. While stocks have struggled to produce steady returns, coins are powering ...

Human civilization doesn’t get much more ancient than China, whose history dates back more than 5,000 years and whose global influence can be seen in everything from how people govern to what they eat ...

No matter the market conditions, gold coins typically remain valuable assets. They can hedge against inflation and be sold easily if you need cash. Those are just a couple of the reasons investors and ...

A newly discovered medieval Chinese coin, the second ever found in England, points to the possible existence of a vast medieval trade route spanning much of the Eastern hemisphere. Discovered via a ...

The discovery of a puzzling 340-year-old coin etched with traditional Chinese characters in Canada's Yukon territory suggests that the area was already aflurry with trading even before the Gold Rush.

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will display selected numismatic objects recently acquired from the collection of Howard F. Bowker beginning Nov. 8. The New Acquisitions case ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photograph of stacks of bundled Japanese coins atop a straw woven mat upon a white tabletop. Archaeologists in Japan have ...

A Chinese coin about 600 years old was recently unearthed on an island just off the coast of Kenya. If it proves to be authentic, the coin could show that the Chinese explorer Zheng He — like a ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. -- For police, the likelihood of matching stolen property to the rightful owner is often times very slim. So Redwood City, California police are trying to find the owner of some ...

When archeologist Hiroyuki Miyagi heard that a bunch of ancient Roman and Ottoman coins had been unearthed from the ruins of an old castle in Okinawa, he initially thought it was a hoax. “I couldn’t ...