Rare coins surfacing on the Black Market rarely come with a return address, yet a recent case has led straight back to a ...

It’s something out of a dream or TV show: a married couple takes their dog for a walk and finds a buried treasure worth $10 million. But it actually happened, back in 2013.

The Celtic silver coins led to the top of Croatia’s Mount Pupak, where, after two years, researchers discovered the fortress.

The two gold coins were minted almost 2,300 years ago, around the mid-third century B.C. "This makes them part of a very ...

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The coin minted between 1584 and 1586 celebrates England’s naval superiority. By Laura Baisas Published Dec 9, 2025 9:27 AM EST Get the Popular Science daily ...

The principle of inertia is a property of matter by which it continues in its existing state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, unless that state is changed by an external force. We are ...

A metal detectorist in England has unearthed two rare gold coins that date to the mid-14th century, a time when Black Death was ravaging the country. Edward III tried to rectify these monetary ...

An extremely rare Roman coin commemorating the assassination of Julius Caesar has surfaced and may be worth millions of dollars, according to coin experts. “It was made in 42 B.C., two years after the ...

In sports, coin tosses are often used to decide who goes first, or pick who goes to bat for the first part of the game. It seems fair. You'd assume that as coins have two sides and you introduce a ...

Legend holds that the city of Portland, Oregon, was nearly called Boston. A coin toss in 1845 between Francis Pettygrove, who hailed from a different Portland, in Maine, and Asa Lovejoy, from Boston ...