Some of the rarest and most valuable coins in U.S. history owe their worth to minting errors that slipped through unnoticed. Coins like the 1943 Copper Penny, struck in copper instead of wartime ...

The combination of "copper" and "penny" might not seem like the best formula for valuable coins considering that you can find ...

A rare penny is worth a lot more than its face value due to a tiny fault - the Coin Collecting Wizard on TikTok has shared ...

A. Multiple strike — This is a coin which has more than one image struck off center. A variation of this theme is one image struck in the wrong area of the planchet.

Movies like "Wall Street" made the 1980s synonymous with money -- but coins are often left out of currency conversations about the decade of decadence. For You: 4 Kennedy Half Dollar Coins That ...

A Lincoln wheat penny minted in 1955 sold this month for $2,050 on eBay because it contains a rare feature.

Coin collectors have been spending hundreds, thousands and most recently, more than $1 million on a penny that was mistakenly stamped twice. Here's why the coins are valuable.

Here are 15 rare coins that fetch a high price on eBay or at auction. If you don't find any in your pockets, don't despair — you can get rich off spare change in other ways. 14. 1972 doubled die ...

There will be a 1943 Lincoln penny struck in bronze, which would seem not out of the ordinary except for the fact that the U.S. Mint changed the composition of the penny in 1943 to steel to save ...

It costs 3.69 cents to make a penny, whose value is just one cent, according to the U.S. Mint’s fiscal 2024 report. Last year alone, the penny’s production resulted in a loss of $85 million ...