The features are indistinguishable but he is unmistakeably a king – a very special one: Alfred, the only English king to be called “the Great” and the monarch who first unified production of the ...

The global financial landscape is currently navigating a complex web of challenges. With ongoing geopolitical tensions in the ...

COIN collectors or people who’ve inherited old change could be sitting on a small fortune. But as the rarest coins are all from before decimalisation – the switchover to the currency system we use now ...

Someone has bought a rare coin featuring Edward VIII for £1m, making it the most expensive British sovereign ever sold. It was snapped up by a private buyer in the UK after being located by the Royal ...

A rare 1937 Edward VIII sovereign coin has been bought by a private collector for 1 million pounds (US$1.31 million), making it the most expensive British coin ever. The coin was one of six prepared ...

If Scott King's friend did not cancel a prospecting trip, he would not have ventured to a new spot on his own where he found this rare gold coin. Mr King's change of plans had a silver — or gold — ...

A lucky Australian has literally struck gold by finding a precious rare coin thanks to a late change of plans on where to go on his regular hunts with a metal detector. Shane King was due to join a ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Gold has hit new highs on several occasions in the last few weeks. And in the world of collectable coins, gold ...

Despite major search, no owner identified for 900 coins from 1847 to 1915 stashed in piano donated to Shropshire college A hoard of more than 900 gold sovereigns found hidden in a donated school piano ...