A single coin can be worth a lot of money -- a pretty penny, one might say -- if it's rare and has enough historical ...

If you come across this special coin minted with gold from the California gold rush, you could be looking at a small fortune for yourself.

Up until the 20th century, many coins were composed of basic metals like gold and silver — that is, until gold was banned from coinage by way of executive order in 1933, and silver was watered ...

The first design to emerge was for the double eagle ... coin was struck in huge numbers from 1907 until 1933. Then, with the Great Depression at its height, the United States ceased minting gold ...