The rise of the internet as a medium for commerce has transformed many industries, including the rare coin business. In the pre-internet era, information about rare coins was hard to come by ...

Many valuable and rare coins from the 1940s remain in circulation today, including the Mercury dime, which was produced from 1916 to 1945. Approximately 21.5 million of these dimes were minted ...

Since it started, the U.S. Mint has been super precise with how it mints coins. But the "No Mint Mark" blunder on the 1982 Roosevelt Dime was a rare slip-up. Though no one knows how the absence of ...

The old cliché about finding rare and valuable coins is that you should start by digging around in your couch cushions. That’s not necessarily bad advice. However, chances are the only loose ...

The priciest coins fetch millions of dollars at auction, and even less expensive specimens sell for hundreds of thousands. This year alone, one California auctioneer and dealer sold six rare coins ...

While buying known rare coins can be a costly venture, you can start collecting for little to no money. And you don’t need to be of a certain age to take up the hobby. In fact, according to the ...

Although it was only minted from 1971 through 1978, the Eisenhower dollar is still out there in circulation. If you have one in a coin jar or collection, you might have something worth more than a ...

While most coins are only worth their face value, certain rare coins could be worth a small fortune. Knowing which ones to hold onto can make all the difference, especially if you’re unaware of ...

AN ultra-rare coin has sold on eBay for 8000 times its usual value due to an "extra special" detail. The 50p fetched a whopping £4,000 - due to an unusual error in ...

Archaeologists have discovered more than $318,000 worth of gold and silver coins believed to have been used by pagans as “devil’s money” at a rare Medieval worship site in the Netherlands.

So, it's always worth checking your old jars of coins in case you do have a rare 1933 penny.” On its website, the Royal Mint explained more: “No record was kept at the time of how many pennies ...