Find Out: These 11 Rare Coins Sold for Over $1 Million For You: 3 Things You Must Do When Your Savings Reach $50,000 Some of the pennies lying around your house could far exceed their face value ...

Last year was a lucrative one for sellers of rare coins, as one auction house sold five specimens for more than $1 million each — including one that fetched a record price in its category.

Coins bearing Eugenius' image—such as the three that have been found as part of the hoard—are rare. The solidi—the Latin word for gold coins like these—were uncovered in the ruins of a ...

The rare misprint shows Queen Elizabeth II on the back and has been described as a "collector's dream". While most misprints do not make it out to the general public when coins are sifted ...

CREDIT: C. Nosbusch/INRA. Due to his only two-year-long reign, coins like these three bearing Eugenius’ image are incredibly uncommon. “It is extremely rare to be able to study an ancient ...