The 1958 Franklin Half Dollar is produced in 90 percent silver and 10 percent copper. The exact composition was used for the ...

3 Things You Must Do When Your Savings Reach $50,000 Franklin half dollars were issued from 1948 through 1963, according to ...

Beginning in 1965, the JFK coins were converted to cheaper copper-silver clad. Six years later, they switched again to copper-nickel clad. As for Benjamin Franklin — he was a humble sort who may ...

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The pair were soon striking silver coins, defying the crown’s authority ... [Related: Benjamin Franklin used science to protect his money from counterfeiters.] Stack’s Bowers Galleries ...

All types of coins that were made at the Boston Mint are scarce. Silver threepences, sixpences, and shillings were all struck in four different designs between 1652 and 1682. The most famous and ...

An American silver coin from before the American Revolution that was recovered in an old cabinet in Amsterdam sold for $2.52 million at an auction, decimating the previous record. The threepence ...