In 1652, British settlers in America defied their royal overlords by setting up a mint in Boston. The colonists began ...

What Is the 1978 Eisenhower Dollar Made Of? The 1978 Eisenhower dollar is primarily made of 75% copper and 25% nickel with ...

The US Mint initially made this coin with a composition consisting of 90% silver. Specimens with it’s intricate design well ...

One of the earliest United States silver dollars, a Rhode Island family's heirloom coin struck on an adjusted planchet, ...

The silver threepence was made in Boston just ... the coin’s $2.52 million sale price set a new world record for an American coin made before the American Revolution. (The previous record ...

Although the coin is only about the size of a nickel and has a silver value of just $1.03 on today’s market, its age and ties to American history have made it the most expensive non-gold US coin ...

An American silver coin from before the American Revolution ... decimating the previous record. The threepence coin was made in 1652 in Boston, mere weeks after the first mint was set up in ...

An American silver coin dating back to the 17th century, before the United States was founded, has sold for a record-breaking $2.52 million at auction, eight years after it was discovered in an ...

On Dec. 13, 1978, at the U.S. Mint at Fifth and Arch Streets, the first coins featuring the suffragette were pressed.

Contracted divers found 101 gold coins from the wreckage of a Spanish fleet in 2015, but they only reported 51 to authorities ...