Coins & Banknotes

Nine-year-old designs Olympic coin
A competition winner has become the youngest-ever designer of a rare collectible 50p piece

US Mint cancels Gold and Silver Eagles
Here's a letdown for collectors: the Mint has stopped making its 2009 Proof and Uncirculated coins

Scottish £1 banknote sells for record £9k
Clydesdale bank's World Heritage notes auction raised over �112k for charity

Coins millionaire bankrupted by a $1.2m music box
Numismatics made this Florida collector rich, but another obsession led to his downfall

£400k banknotes found in pensioner's home
'He simply didn't know they were there... The world is full of hidden away treasures,' says auctioneer

$1m in coins and treasures to be sold online
Rare Mexican and Panama coins and shipwreck gold and silver appear in Internet auction
Perth Mint makes profits of $38m
Gold prices reach near-record levels as investors look for secure investments
Priest sells his $0.5m coin collection
And, in a final act of dedication, Reverend O'Connor has donated all the money to numismatic research
Egyptian coins 'from the time of Joseph' discovered
Incredible discovery could give, 'scientific evidence against the claim that coins were not used in ancient Egypt,' say experts
Indian jewellery prices undented by gold
The rising cost of gold isn't deterring jewellery sales in India
100,000 gold coins to be saved from shipwreck
Deep-sea hunters and the UK Government will work together to rescue sunken 18th treasure
Hawaiian bank note sells for $54k
This 1882 $5 has 'outstanding eye appeal' say numismatic experts