The Lincoln Memorial cent makes up the majority of the 150 billion U.S. pennies used today. This one cent coin was put into circulation in 1959 and went unchanged for the next 50 years. While arguments...
This guide is a summary of the available information about the new US Lincoln Penny series that will be issued in 2009.Background The Presidential $1 Coin Program (Public Law 109-145; 119 Stat. 2664) is an Act...
It is most common for collectors to purchase their coins from coin dealers, mail-order,auctions, etc. When I was growing up, there was no Ebay as the Internet hadn’t yet evolved. Coin shops were far and few...
The purpose of this guide is to help you avoid buying (or selling) a fake or counterfeit 1909 S VDB Lincoln cent. This guide could also help you determine if a coin you have in your possession is a fake. This...
How many times have you walked past a penny on the ground or on the floor somewhere and not taken the ''penny worth of time'' to pick it up? Most people don’t bother. I’ll bet you would if you knew it could be...
Can you give me information on a 1943 US copper penny? The furor over the "copper" cent resulted from a story carried by Associated Press, hyping a local story of a "lost" coin claimed (without any...
One of the rarest denominations of U.S. coinage,Twenty Cent pieces were minted from 1875 through 1878. However, for the years 1877 and 1878, only proofs were struck, leaving only 2 years during which there was...
1943 and 1944 Steel and Copper Cents If This Guide Helps You, Please Help Us By Rating it "Helpful" History of Wartime Cents Even in 1941, before the US entered World War II, it was becoming apparent that the...
The purpose of this guide is to give you information about unsearched lots of wheat cents (pennies). Hopefully, this will make you a better shopper and help you avoid being ripped off.It has been over 50 years...
The silver Three Cent coin is the smallest U.S. silver coin ever placed into circulation (and the second-smallest diameter coin of any denomination or metal - only Coronet-type $1 gold pieces are smaller). It...