You don't need to be a coin collector to have piggy banks stashed around your house filled with quarters, dimes, nickels or pennies. However, you may not be aware of the potential fortune you ...

“You can go to your own bank or credit union and not pay any fee,” said Kimberly Palmer, personal finance expert at NerdWallet. Both NerdWallet and Bankrate offer tip sheets on exchanging coins for ...

Online chatter has lots of folks looking at their caches of coins hoping to find Lincoln wheat pennies that they ...

These 1917 wheat pennies are one of the more valuable double-die errors ever minted. Bottom line: This 1955 DDO coin is the ...

As with just about any asset, a coin’s value is determined by its market demand. This means that coins in short supply often see higher demand — and higher values. With coins, supplies are ...

the top two most valuable pennies are from 1943 and 1944. “These values reflect coins issued into circulation as is, not common errors like double dies,” explains Cointrackers.com, a site ...

Hugh Cameron is Newsweek U.S. news reporter based in London, U.K. with a focus on covering American economic and business news. Hugh joined Newsweek in 2024, having worked at Alliance News Ltd ...

You don’t need to be a coin collector to have piggy banks stashed around your house filled with quarters, dimes, nickels or pennies. However, you may not be aware of the potential fortune you ...

especially with minting errors, may be worth thousands. You can see the NGC price guide here. But headlines about super-valuable "Lincoln wheat pennies" stretch the imagination. Most likely ...