Land Rover Defender owned by King Charles III

Fancy driving the King’s Land Rover? You can, but the HRH plates are extra

A Land Rover King Charles III owned is being auctioned. He was heir to the throne when the Land Rover Defender pulled up at his Highgrove House hom...
Fidel Castro photo portrait with Che Guevara

The man they couldn’t kill: The USA v Fidel Castro

On December 31, 1958, Fulgencio Batista left Havana for the last time, reportedly with hundreds of millions of dollars on the nation’s cash in his ...
President John F Kennedy in his limousine in Dallas on the day of his murder

Collecting the 60s assassinations

President Trump loves to cause a stir.  And one of the biggest fusses caused by his early announcements related to events many decades ago.  “Decla...
Mercedes W196 Streamliner

The most expensive ever F1 car - the $54 million Mercedes

A rare Mercedes W196 called the Streamliner has sold for $53.9 million, making it the most valuable Grand Prix car ever sold.  This is no ordinary ...
King Henry III of England

Lucky detectorist finds gold coin worth £648,000

A coin found on a Devon farm by a metal detectorist has been sold for £648,000 at auction.  Experts have managed to link the coin to a single, prob...
Union flag and EU flag on sand castle

The Brexit 50p and rare coins in your pocket change

Every now and then, rare coins explode out of our little specialist world and into the mainstream.  Usually because there's a chance to get money f...
Britannia, Mother Russia and Marianne

Face of a nation. The real-life models for stamps and coins

How do you embody a nation? Wales and Bhutan choose dragons to represent their national spirit.  But for some countries a person does it better.  Y...
Official seal of the United States of America

A history of the dollar coin including some of America’s rarest coins

When the UK ruled the waves and world trade, British money became the monetary lingua franca.  Now, the dollar is the language of the global econom...
the US Mint in Philadelphia

How to care for gold coins

Congratulations if you’re a new gold coin owner.  Your coins will probably be in one of two categories.  Bullion coins are bought usually for their...
a large pile of 1 cent US coins

Small change to big money, America’s most valuable 1c coins 

The smallest chunk of change you can waste your time on.  Cents or pennies - Americans ditched British imperial, base-12 coinage but that name for ...
John F Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe and JFK: a collectible “love” story

Tragic Hollywood legend Marilyn Monroe and slain US president John F Kennedy are two of the most collectible figures in modern history.  But were t...