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The silver one shilling coin made in Boston in 1652, was recently found in the United Kingdom inside a candy tin.

This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest top stories involving gold and the overall economy. Stories include: Silver demand to climb to a six-year high, what India’s massive gold import figures for March tell us about Asian gold demand, and a stash of antique coins in New England sheds light on a famous historical figure. Silver Institute: Silver demand will climb to its highest since 2015 this year In a joint report published on Thursday, The Silver Institute and precious metals consultancy Metals Focus said that silver demand this year should climb to its highest level since 201...

One of these rare coins was discovered in 1988 on the banks of the Niantic River. Published April 28. 2021 9:00AM  Jim Littlefield, Special to The Times It may have been the greatest heist of all time, and it took place on the high seas. The royal ship Ganj-iSawai, property of Indian emperor Aurangzeb, had set sail from the port of Mocha on the Red Sea bound for Surat, India. Aboard were faithful Moslem passengers returning home from a recent Hadj, a sacred pilgrimage to Mecca. Also on board were tens of millions of dollars in gold and silver belonging to the wealthy emperor.

Treasure (Rhode) Island? Henry Every and Yemeni Coins Found in New England Associated Press ran a story about a handful of small silver coins from 17th-century Yemen found by metal detectorists in New England and the theory advanced by Jim Bailey that these coins actually represent pirate plunder. In fact, he argues that they are the remains of plunder taken by Henry Every (also written as “ Avery”) in one of the most famous pirate actions of the 17th century—the taking of the Mughal ship Mecca to Surat in 1695. The story was quickly seized upon and embroidered by online news out...

Every literally got away with murder. Nobody could catch him, even though the King of England put a bounty over his head. He vanished under the identity of a slave trader and finally made off to Ireland in 1696 — but not without dropping a few telltale coins first. Jim Bailey found one of those coins. That wasn’t the only thing he found. The amateur historian, who had previously assisted archaeologists with investigating the sunken secrets of a pirate shipwreck, has done research so extensive that even professionals in the field are impressed. What made Bailey’s coin stand out was that ...