How to Sell Your Coins Safely (Dealer, Auction, or Grading First?) Selling a coin well is mostly not about the sale. It is about the five decisions you make before anyone sees it: what it is, what grade it honestly is, what similar coins have actually sold for, whether it should be certified first, and…
1916-D Mercury Dime: The Little Silver Dime Worth Big Money It weighs two and a half grams. It can slip through a hole in a pocket without a sound. And one version of it, from one mint, in one year, is worth more than a thousand worn examples of its ordinary brothers combined. The 1916-D…
Morgan Silver Dollar Value Guide: Key Dates From 1893-S to 1921 A Morgan dollar feels different the moment you pick it up. It is big, heavy, and unmistakably silver — almost an ounce of American history in your palm. Millions of these dollars sat in bank vaults for decades. Others rode in saddlebags, clinked across…
1909-S VDB Lincoln Cent: The First-Year Penny Everyone Looks For If you could check just one wheat penny first — before all the others — which one should it be? For most collectors, the answer is the 1909-S VDB. It is the very first Lincoln cent from the San Francisco Mint, it carries its designer’s…
Wheat Penny Value Guide (1909–1958): Key Dates, Mint Marks & Prices Could the most valuable coin you own be a one-cent piece sitting in a jar, a drawer, or an old coffee can? For a lot of people, it could. Lincoln wheat cents were made from 1909 to 1958, and most of them are worth…
That jar of pennies on your dresser? Most of it is worth one cent. But a few pennies — real ones, still found in pocket change and old rolls — are worth hundreds, thousands, and in one famous case, hundreds of thousands of dollars. Here are the ones to actually look for, and how to…
