Back in 1999, Jennifer Scott, now 49, heard on the news that the U.S. Mint was issuing quarters to honor each of the 50 states. She began collecting the quarters, each featuring a design specific to ...

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 ...

Keil Sherman remembers the joy of receiving gold coins from his grandmother, Jean Grossman, on his birthday. The coins, given to him throughout his teenage years, were from his grandmother’s family ...

In a digital world filled with credit cards, electronic payments and direct deposits, you can go for days without handling actual money. But for collectors and hobbyists all over the world, there’s no ...

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 new business specializing in selling coins and collectibles has opened at 1555 Hertel Avenue. Co-owner Mike Harmon decided that he needed to keep busy after retirement, which was how he came up with ...

Two metal detectorists have just discovered a collection of 1,000-year-old Viking coins on the Isle of Man, a small self-governing British crown dependency located in the middle of the Irish Sea ...

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 ...

Thimmapuram Suresh Reddy, a head constable at Tirupati West Police Station, is a passionate numismatist whose impressive rare ...