A 19th century coin widely considered to be “the King of Silver Dollars” is hitting the auction block next week as part of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Saving for a rainy day is not a new idea. In 2021, archaeologists turned up a whole horde of hoards: stashes of coins and other valuables left behind for whatever reason and never used again. These ...

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A horde of coins found in Transylvania in 1713 contained several unlike other Roman coins in style and make, with enigmatic features including bungled legends and historically mixed motifs. The four ...

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 ...

Introduction Have you ever wondered exactly how your phone, laptop or a flashlight manages to work without being plugged into a power outlet? Where does the electrical energy come from that makes all ...

History is full of artifacts that later turn out to be fakes, but very occasionally the opposite can happen. New analysis of ancient Roman coins long dismissed as forgeries has found they appear to be ...

We've got a fantastic riddle for you this week about an unfair coin. The problem was first posed by Hungarian-American mathematician John von Neumann, and it reveals that this lopsided coin could be ...