Not every old coin is worth something, but many from the 1800s sure are. Some coins from this period are worth thousands or tens of thousands of dollars ... these silver coins are valuable ...

An eight-year-old boy has unearthed an extremely rare silver coin while playing in a sandbox, dating to about 1,800 years before he was born. The young boy, who was identified only by his first ...

a silver denarius—or Roman coin—minted 1,800 years ago. While the boy, now 9, made the find last year, officials announced it at a press event on August 11. “We are glad that Bjarne was so ...

There are a select few silver dollar coins that can fetch millions of dollars due to their rarity or historical significance. The most coveted coins for many collectors are silver dollars ...

The United States started using coins as a medium of exchange and/or legal tender in March 1793. The Mint produced approximately 11,178 copper cents until the very first silver dollar was minted in ...

It was a type of legal tender that was issued by the federal government in the late 1800s ... as the raw silver required to make a coin was worth more than their gold dollar and greenback ...

with some of the most popular being the Sacagawea Gold Dollar Coin, the Seated Liberty Silver Dollar Coin, and the Peace Silver Dollar Coin, according to the U.S. Mint. A 1974 Eisenhower silver ...

He’d spend countless hours sifting through jars of spare change full of fascination, searching for coins with a unique stamping or those dating back to the 1800s. Sixty years later, his passion ...

Each of the 16 coins is a denarius — the standard Roman coin — and Marsden estimates that the entire horde would have been worth the equivalent of a few hundred dollars at the time.