This guide is a summary of the available information about the new US Lincoln Penny series that will be issued in 2009.Background The Presidential $1 Coin Program (Public Law 109-145; 119 Stat. 2664) is an Act...
1970-S Small Date and Large Date Cents If This Guide Helps You, Please Help Us By Rating it "Helpful" The 1970-S small date cents were first discovered early in 1970. However, the differences between the...
How I Got Two Genuine 1877 Indian Head Cents for Eight Dollars (Or, Cherrypicking World Coins - Even If You Don't Collect Them) By Robertson W. Shinnick, World Numismatist (Note: I don't know how "helpful"...
It is most common for collectors to purchase their coins from coin dealers, mail-order,auctions, etc. When I was growing up, there was no Ebay as the Internet hadn’t yet evolved. Coin shops were far and few...
The description of Full Head on Standing Liberty Quarter is misleading many times. While technically correct perhaps, there can be a full head (or almost as illustrated in the coin here) but the coin could...
Practically any Lincoln cent collector can tell you all about the famous Doubled Die varieties. After all, unless that collector is a,"somewhat advanced" collector, those coins are probably just on his "Wish...
How many times have you walked past a penny on the ground or on the floor somewhere and not taken the ''penny worth of time'' to pick it up? Most people don’t bother. I’ll bet you would if you knew it could be...
Can you give me information on a 1943 US copper penny? The furor over the "copper" cent resulted from a story carried by Associated Press, hyping a local story of a "lost" coin claimed (without any...
A few years ago we started a website called eCoinPrices.Com to enable the public to have Free Online access to learn the Value of Rare Coins. eCoinPrices.Com also gives the current market price of each issue...
BU Roll Buyer's Guide Part 1: Introduction Part 2: History of Roll Collecting Part 3: Where Rolls Come From Part 4: Types of Rolls This Guide Comes in Several Parts A....