A group of Florida-based treasure hunters recently recovered hundreds of coins from a fleet of 300-year-old shipwrecks off the Atlantic coast this week. One of the divers called the find late last ...

The old cliché about finding rare and valuable coins is that you should start by digging around in your couch cushions. That’s not necessarily bad advice. However, chances are the only loose change ...

New pictures of coins from a 300-year-old shipwreck off the coast of Colombia help tell the story of the ship's journey. More than 300 years ago, June of 1708, British forces attacked a Spanish ...

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The treasure, discovered by researchers, is thought to be from the Spanish galleon ship San José, which was sunk by British warships in 1708 Becca Longmire is a digital news writer-reporter at PEOPLE.

Let’s say you’re clearing out your parents’ or grandparents’ attic and you happen to spot a box full of coins. Or maybe you’re shopping at the secondhand store when you get a unique piece of paper ...