No coins were available at this time except for various foreign coins such as the widely traded and trusted Spanish real dollars. The first coinage act was proposed and it passed Congress under ...

PAGE, Ariz. — Mystery solved. Two centuries-old Spanish coins that were found near Lake Powell last September are authentic, but were determined to be a part of a modern coin collection ...

Waving a metal detector over the soil, he got a signal, dug down and hit literal paydirt: a darkened, dime-sized silver coin he initially assumed was either Spanish or money minted by the ...

The holey dollars were created by stamping the centres out of 40,000 imported Spanish silver eight-real coins, known as “pieces of eight”. There are only 15 left in the world. Mr Platts said ...