You don't need to be a coin collector to have piggy banks stashed around your house filled with quarters, dimes, nickels or ...

Over 4 million of these pennies were minted at the San Francisco Mint (hence the S designation). This one appears to be ...

The tech entrepreneur Jeff Bezos is the first man ever to be worth more than $100 billion. He created the e-commerce platform ...

most sought-after American coins in the world. Like the 1943 copper penny, it was struck using the wrong planchet. By 1944, the U.S. Mint returned to only using copper alloys to mint pennies ...

While many of the most valuable coins aren’t in circulation anymore, there are still millions of coins changing hands every ...

A copper penny appears to turn to silver after heating in an evaporating dish with a mixture. The penny then appears to turn to gold when heated in a flame. Heat causes a fusion of zinc and copper to ...

During World War II, pennies were made of steel to save copper for the war effort. However, a few were mistakenly made of bronze, and these are extremely rare and valuable. Made of 95% copper and ...