Avid coin collectors in search of old, rare and valuable finds will discover a treasure trove in Mexican coins. The earliest specimens date back nearly 500 years, and if you come across one, you could ...

MEXICO CITY – Armed robbers broke into a Mexican government coin manufacturer on Tuesday and filled a backpack with more than $2 million worth of gold coins from a vault that had been left open, ...

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 ...

A very rare 1714 Mexican gold coin, known as the Presentation 8 Escudos, could sell for between US$200,000 and US$400,000 at a live auction on Aug. 6 in Las Vegas. The coin was believed to be minted ...

Thieves stole nearly 1,600 gold coins worth more than $2 billion in a brazen daytime robbery in Mexico City. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Armed robbers ...

Jan. 31—John Krist is enjoying the fact that he's helping cultivate the next generation of collectors. As the mastermind behind the New Mexico Coin-Stamp & Collectible Expo, Krist offers an ...

Armed robbers successfully broke into the national mint and escaped from the scene with centennial coins worth millions of dollars. Local media suspect government officials helped the thieves.

Recently, there was a debate in the Mexican Congress on the proposal to monetize the Silver Libertad Coin. The debate took place during a forum for “The Promotion of Savings for Mexicans.” If Mexico ...

At the first sight of the huge sculpture of a coin set in Jinggangshan in East China's Jiangxi province, Diego Barroso, a Mexican language teacher based in Shanghai, wonders how the pattern of Latin ...

Armed robbers broke into a government coin manufacturer in Mexico on Tuesday and filled a backpack with more than $2m worth of gold coins from a vault that had been left open, security officials said.