In 1919, while studying birational automorphisms of the projective plane, A. Coble introduced a new family of surfaces, today known as Coble surfaces. We start by showing some basic facts, and underling the properties which link these rational surfaces to the world of Enriques surfaces. Next, we present some recent results on automorphisms of a Coble surface, with a particular attention to the case of involutions. We show that, under suitable generic assumptions, any involution on a Coble surface is a lift of a Bertini involution. The content of this talk is based on my PhD thesis, written under the supervision of Prof. A. Verra.