The Roger Bannister 50p coin was sold for £483.63 on eBay. The coin was minted in 2004 to celebrate 50 years since Sir Roger Bannister ran a mile in under four minutes.

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Remember that dusty shoebox tucked away in your closet, filled with pennies, quarters, and random coins you collected as a ...

A 'very rare' 50p in memory of the first person to break the four-minute mile barrier has run away at auction - selling for a whopping 967 times its shop value. The Roger Bannister 50p coin was sold ...

A 400-year-old coin printed as "political propaganda" during the Civil War is expected to fetch up to £3,000 in an auction. The "exceptionally rare" 1643 Charles I Bristol shilling was only minted for ...

When you were a kid, you might have played “treasure hunter” in your parents’ or grandparents’ attic, digging through old trunks or chests of drawers for imaginary pirates’ gold. You probably never ...

The U.S. Treasury Department announced that it has stopped producing pennies, ending more than 230 years of minting the 1-cent coin. The penny will remain legal tender and will still be accepted at ...

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ATLANTA — After more than two centuries, the U.S. Mint has officially stopped producing the penny, ending the run of America’s smallest and most iconic coin. But despite the historic shift, experts ...

EMAIL TO NOT PERFORM ANY WORK RELATED TASKS. THE BUREAU HAS NOT COMMENTED ON THE CHANGES.### PRESIDENT TRUMP SAYS HE HAS DIRECTED THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT TO STOP MINTING NEW PENNIES. THE PRESIDENT ...