Time to dispose of your childhood coin collection? When I was growing up in Zurich, the Swiss authorities stopped using silver to mint the franc, and instead switched to a base-metal alloy. It was ...

Q. I inherited my father’s coin collection when he died 15 years ago. With the elevated gold price, I’ve recently sold ...

Here's a case where solid gold and silver coins might have lost value because of a piece of paper, as a local coin collector found out that can be quite an ordeal. Homer Leonard of Los Gatos began ...