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 ...

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 ...

A 2000 gold £5 Quintuple Sovereign has sold on eBay for more than £4,000. The coin was sold to the highest bidder for £4,286.70, including £86.70 for buyer protection. It is described by the seller as ...

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 ...

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 — ...

The Royal Mint is reintroducing traditional yellow gold sovereign coins in a move that could send collectors, historians and investors into a frenzy. After decades dominated by the rose gold version, ...

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 ...

A hoard of gold discovered hidden inside an old piano has been revealed to be a collection of sovereign coins. The discovery was made in Shropshire before Christmas when the piano's new owners had it ...