A PIANO tuner who discovered £500,000 worth of antique gold coins inside a piano will get to keep half the cash - but the couple who owned it for 33 years won't get a penny. The golden coins ...

A tuner who found £500,000-worth of antique gold coins stashed in a piano will get to keep half the bounty – but its owners of 33 years are not entitled to a penny.

Having hit as high as 362 tonnes in 2013, the country’s demand for gold coins and bars dropped by a half in 2014, thanks to a raft of restrictions on the precious metal imports, including a 10% ...

Image: Roxbury's Mr Waterman said the 1855 half sovereign was one of Australia’s first gold coins. “This was really quite a primitive time if you can imagine and money was quite scarce.

And in the world of collectable coins, gold sovereigns, guineas, half guineas and other variants of the yellow metal are as popular as ever. Coin collectors don’t usually pay too much attention ...

The coin is one of Australia’s most valuable pre-decimal coins. The half sovereign coin was stamped with a design using four dies from London in the Mint’s opening year, 1899.