Human civilization doesn’t get much more ancient than China, whose history dates back more than 5,000 years and whose global influence can be seen in everything from how people govern to what they eat ...

A gift of more than 2,000 coins to the Princeton University Library's Department of Rare Books and Special Collections will make relics from ancient and medieval China available to researchers on ...

In China, paramilitary police drill outside the Shanghai Mint. They're stationed there because it's literally a moneymaking plant. It's also a museum and, on Friday, it received a new, welcome ...

No matter the market conditions, gold coins typically remain valuable assets. They can hedge against inflation and be sold easily if you need cash. Those are just a couple of the reasons investors and ...

A newly discovered medieval Chinese coin, the second ever found in England, points to the possible existence of a vast medieval trade route spanning much of the Eastern hemisphere. Discovered via a ...

The discovery of a puzzling 340-year-old coin etched with traditional Chinese characters in Canada's Yukon territory suggests that the area was already aflurry with trading even before the Gold Rush.

Scientists have unearthed a 600-year-old Chinese coin on the Kenyan island of Manda that shows trade existed between China and east Africa decades before European explorers set sail and changed the ...

After nearly 1000 years of the reign of Rajendra Chola I, Chinese-origin coins were unearthed in the Chola heartlands -- Thanjavur and Thallikotta. The coins provided evidence of a trade that once ...

A Chinese coin about 600 years old was recently unearthed on an island just off the coast of Kenya. If it proves to be authentic, the coin could show that the Chinese explorer Zheng He — like a ...

I'm kind of a big picture guy. I would like to see the government of China issue a parallel gold-based currency, in the form of banknotes and coins, for widespread use within China and around the ...

This photo taken on Sept. 19, 2025 shows a set of commemorative coins to mark the 70th anniversary of the establishment of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The People's Bank of China on Friday issued ...