Two record-breaking online sales of historic coins by Heritage Auctions snagged a total of more than US$53 million earlier this month led by an 1876-CC Twenty Cent piece that fetched US$690,000 ...

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Axel Munthe, an animal lover, at the Materita tower, Capri, 1930s When Munthe (1857-1949) first visited the island as a young medical student in 1876 ... so he made us understand that Capri ...

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A coin issued by Gaius Caesar - also known as Caligula - decorated with a portrait of the Empress Agrippina and dated to A.D. 37-38 sold for about $9,295, according to the BBC. Another coin, issued by ...

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But they had no idea just how much until just a few years ago. The extraordinarily rare coin, struck by the US Mint in San Francisco in 1975, could bring more than US$500,000, said Ian Russell ...

The collection includes rare coins and medals from Denmark, Norway, Sweden and England dating back to the Viking age and is expected to be the most valuable non-US coin collection ever sold.

The extraordinarily rare coin​, struck by the U.S. Mint in San Francisco in 1975, could bring more than $500,000.