Can you give me information on a 1943 US copper penny? The furor over the "copper" cent resulted from a story carried by Associated Press, hyping a local story of a "lost" coin claimed (without any...
The Utah quarter shows two locomotives moving toward the Golden Spike that joined the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads, creating the nation’s transcontinental railroad in 1869. The inscription says,...
The reverse of Washington’s quarter features a king salmon breaching the water in front of Mount Rainier. The coin bears the inscriptions, “The Evergreen State,” “Washington” and “1889.”The reverse was...
While most collectors believe that 1964 was the last year that the United States Mints struck 90% silver coins for circulation -- 1966 was actually the last year of the 90% silver coinage output for...
Along with the new design process of the Presedential dollar series, comes new errors! The new process involves a separate die to create the lettering on the edge of the new coins. Some coins have already...
The U.S. cent and Sacajawea dollar are the only coins currently minted in the United States which the profiles face to the right. All other US coins incuding the half dollar, quarter, dime, and nickel, all...
The Presidential Dollar Coin series is a new type of regular, circulating dollar coin, issued by the U.S. Mint that began this year. These dollar coins are made on the same planchets as the Sacagawea 'Golden'...
Many of the most popular U.S. coins were struck in silver. Silver coins were what the United States Mint mainly produced and are very popular to coin collectors. Many denominations of silver coins have been...
New Washington Dollar Scam One of the hottest items on Ebay is the new Washington dollar with the plain edge. Yes, the Mint did make some errors where they did not put the edge lettering on some of the P...
One eBay scam involves someone hijacking the eBay account of a seller with a good feedback record by deceitfully obtaining his password. One possible tip-off during the auction is that the seller is...