With all the recent news about the U.S. Mint discontinuing the Lincoln cent, coins have become a frequent topic of conversation around here. If it seems a straightforward enough decision — the mint ...

Last week we looked at the booming silver and gold markets, and little has changed in the intervening seven days. This week let's cover the trickier side of that market: coins. Very few countries ...

One South Carolina couple has given new meaning to the season of perpetual hope after stumbling upon antique coins worth $25,000 in their Columbia home. Army vet James Mumford, 46, and his wife ...

At her home in Moonachie, New Jersey, Quintero showed some of the coins that could have value: a few buffalo head nickels, an Eisenhower silver dollar, and at least one coin that dates back to 1887.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- How many of us over the years have spent our spare change to purchase a candy bar or even a bottle of soda, not knowing if one of those coins could have been worth a great deal ...