An extremely rare half-dollar coin from 1838, now valued at as much as $500,000, is set for auction this week. The 1838-O Capped Bust half dollar is one of only nine that are known to exist, according ...

The Half Eagle was purchased by an anonymous buyer at Stack’s Bowers Galleries‘ March 2021 Las Vegas auction on Thursday night. The record-setting coin is one of only three still in existence and the ...

An extremely rare half-dollar coin from 1838 has been sold at auction for $504,000. The coin was auctioned Friday at the Whitman Baltimore Winter Expo at the Baltimore Convention Center. The 1838-O ...

Where James A. Stack Sr. acquired it is a mystery that may never be solved - but for more than 70 years, one of the rarest coins in American history sat quietly in his family's collection. Stack, a ...

A coin that was forgotten for more than 75 years in a family collection has collected $6 million at auction. On December 9, 2025 Stack’s Bowers Galleries auctioned a newly discovered 16th-known ...

A stack of coins was found to be an unlikely lifesaver when a Reddit user revealed that his great-grandfather narrowly avoided being shot during the First World War thanks to the change in his pocket.

A remarkable tale of how a stack of coins saved the life of a Belgian World War I soldier has been revealed by his great-grandson. Optatius Buyssens had been carrying some loose change in the breast ...

Japanese artist Thumb Tani may have negotiated some deal with how gravity works on Earth for his coin sculptures. Or maybe he is somehow channeling Magneto’s superpowers. No way could be just ...

A stack of coins was found to be an unlikely lifesaver when a Reddit user revealed that his great-grandfather narrowly avoided being shot during the First World War thanks to the change in his pocket.