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In this episode of History Seekers, we set out in search of old silver coins and rings—but what we uncovered was far more intense. Alongside silver jewelry and colonial-era copper coins, we discovered ...
The Treasury Department has pledged to stop producing the penny by early next year. Here's why — and what becomes of your one ...
We hit the road and traveled 1,200 miles to metal detect in New Hampshire, deep in the heart of America’s colonial history. Searching for relics and coins from the Revolutionary War era and ...
Although this photo shows that quilting bees were hardly limited to the colonial era, Portland State University described ... tried to alleviate America’s extreme silver and gold coin scarcity by ...
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Rajya Sabha MP Ashok Kumar Mittal on Monday praised the central government for its efforts to rename colonial-era places and sought further changes to other such places to ...
The same auction included a number of other historical shipwreck relics, including rope from one of King Henry VIII’s vessels and a WWII-era pistol ... II. Colonial threepence coin receives ...
Berlin's Ethnological Museum and the State Museum for Nature and Man in Oldenburg will now send them back as part of ongoing efforts to atone for crimes committed during Germany's colonial era.
An American silver coin from before the American Revolution that was recovered in an old cabinet in Amsterdam sold for $2.52 million at an auction, decimating the previous record. The threepence ...
The Dutch government said it is returning 288 objects wrongfully taken during the colonial era to Indonesia, including weapons, coins, jewellery and textiles looted from Bali after a 1906 war.
The record price for a Colonial New England coin is ... questioned them — they could claim the coins were made during the immediate postwar period instead of in the years after 1652, when ...