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If you collected 50 State Quarters and wondered what came next, the answer arrived in 2009: six quarters honoring the District of Columbia and the five U.S. territories. They are easy to overlook next …

Search for "2023 coins worth money" and you will find plenty of headlines promising a fortune in your pocket change. Here is the plain version: almost every 2023 coin you find in circulation is worth …

Between the Civil War and the First World War, the United States changed almost every small coin in your pocket. Half cents and large cents disappeared, a new small cent arrived, two-cent and three-ce …

Ask ten people what an American Silver Eagle is worth and nine will give you the same answer: silver price plus a little. That answer is right for most of them. It is wrong for a short list of dates a …

The two-cent piece is one of the shortest-lived coins the United States ever made. It ran from 1864 to 1873, it was the first American coin to carry the motto IN GOD WE TRUST, and almost every date is …

Coins make unusually good gifts. They are small, they last forever, they carry real history, and unlike most things under the tree, a well-chosen coin is still worth something years later. They are al …

The Flying Eagle cent lasted barely two years in circulation, but it changed American money for good. It was the first small cent, the coin that replaced the big copper "large cent," and the first tim …

The Shield nickel was the first American five-cent coin made of nickel instead of silver, and it is the reason we call a five-cent piece a nickel at all. It was struck for only eighteen years, from 18 …

The Barber quarter is one of the most honest series in American coinage. Most of the coins that survive are worn nearly smooth, because they spent decades in cash registers before anyone thought to sa …

The Barber half dollar has no single famous rarity the way the Barber quarter has its 1901-S, and that fools people into thinking the series is easy. It is not. Half dollars were the hardest-working s …