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Metal Detectorists Unearth 1,000-Year-Old Viking Coins on a Small Island in the Irish Sea
A collection of 1,000-year-old Viking Age coins has just been discovered on the Isle of Man—a small British crown dependency located in the Irish Sea between Great Britain and Ireland.
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The days of pounds, shillings and pence
At that time, a half crown made for a sizable gift: eight of them made up one pound. The half crown was a coin in our old ...
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Rare silver coin struck before the American Revolution sets auction record, selling for $2.52 million
When this coin was found in 2016 in an old cabinet in the Netherlands ... The Boston Mint had defied the British crown’s authority to produce coins, representing New England’s “growing ...