Kirstine Pommergaard knows what style of brooch was popular in C.E. 300. She can tell whether a coin is a Roman solidus or a dirham of the ancient Islamic caliphates at a glance.

In fact, a coin expert recently sparked excitement among numismatists by highlighting three "old coins" that could be lurking in your home, potentially worth a staggering sum of over £100,000.

The Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates (CBUAE) has issued commemorative gold and silver coins to honour the "Zayed and Rashid" campaign. The issuance celebrates the memory of the late Sheikh ...

If you've got some old coins, you might wonder if cleaning them will help them look newer and more appealling - here's the Royal Mint's advice.

The average jar yields $58 in buying power. Most of us don’t realize how much our coins are worth. Thus, a trip to a coin-exchange kiosk (or a bank, or credit union) can yield a pleasant surprise.

New pictures of coins from a 300-year-old shipwreck off the coast of Colombia help tell the story of the ship's journey.

The owner of Britain’s Islam Channel has acquired left-wing political magazine Tribune – a title which has been published for 88 years and at one point employed George Orwell.

Excavation work near Old Cairo's northern gate in the Gamaliya district could have revealed a segment of the original Fatimid wall. Antiquities minister Mamdouh Eldamaty told Ahram Online that if ...