Chemical studies of old English coins are helping unravel a centuries-old mystery: What happened to all the silver that Spaniards dug out of the New World? Silver from Mexican mines started being ...

Off Florida’s shimmering Atlantic coast, a team of modern treasure hunters uncovered more than a million dollars in silver ...

Whether you choose to sell, collect, or pass coins to the next generation, knowing their worth helps you make informed ...

Metal detectorist Travis Nichols discovered a rare 1782 silver Spanish one-reale coin on a Nantucket beach, adding to his ...

More than 1,000 gold and silver coins were found along Florida's Treasure Coast in the 1715 Treasure Fleet shipwreck.

The vessels sank in a violent hurricane off the coast of Florida in July 1715, when they were traveling from Cuba to Spain ...

SEBASTIAN, FL — More than 1,000 silver coins and five gold coins worth about $1 million ... Queens Jewels said the "pieces of eight" were minted in the Spanish colonies of Mexico, Peru, and Bolivia.

More than 1,000 silver and gold coins, worth over $1 million, were part of the 1715 Fleet recently found off Florida's ...

Minted in bronze, nickel or even precious materials, dozens of coins of various denominations are offered by a trading platform at stratospheric prices. On this occasion we will recall the ...

LAREDO — The biggest commercial port on the frontier with Mexico is a favorite for drug traffickers and other contraband smugglers, and now federal agents here say they’ve uncovered a new scheme: ...

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Gold and silver coins worth about $1 million are found in Florida waters from Spanish ships that sank in a 1715 hurricane ...