It is the size of a fingernail with battered edges to match. But this silver coin, discovered in a field, could be worth up to £80,000 if proved to be a genuine Roman antique. Colin Popplewell, 58, ...

WASHTENAW COUNTY, MI - A cease and desist letter was sent to a New York-based coin company accused of forging a check by an 81-year-old Washtenaw County man, according to the Michigan Attorney General ...

Dubbed the most secure coin in the world the new 12-sided coin boasts a number of features making it extremely difficult to counterfeit. But the most important feature of the new tender reportedly ...

Police said on Monday they had captured members of a gang that allegedly planned to forge large numbers of NIS 10 coins and flood the market with the fake currency. The undercover operation by the ...

SAVERS are being warned to empty their piggy-banks because £1 coins in their current form will no longer be legal currency from October this year. The Treasury has unveiled the timetable for the ...

A NEW £1 coin will be introduced to help counteract forgery, the chancellor has confirmed. George Osborne said that the existing pound coin, which has been in circulation since 1983, will be replaced ...

An air stewardess struggling with a heavy bag at a German airport led investigators to the heart of a scam involved Euro coins worth millions, it has emerged. Thousands of one and two euro coins were ...

The new "forgery proof" 12-sided £1 coins are rolling off the Royal Mint press a year before they start to reach people's pockets. More than 4,000 of the redesigned pounds are already being pumped out ...

A charity worker suspects he has been given a fake new £1 coin - despite claims it is nearly impossible to copy. The new 12-sided piece only came into circulation last month with the Royal Mint ...

Five people arrested by officers investigating a counterfeiting ring which is alleged to have flooded Britain with £30 million in fake £1 coins The new one pound coin announced by the Government, ...

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