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What is a Buffalo Nickel worth?
Most Buffalo Nickels are worth a few dollars. A handful are worth thousands, and the difference is usually the date, the mint mark and whether you can still read either one.
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What individual coins are worth, which dates carry a premium, and where to look on the coin to find out.
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What is a wheat penny worth?
Most wheat pennies are worth about five cents. A few dates are worth hundreds, and one of them is the only US cent ever struck in steel.
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The 1943 steel penny, and why yours is probably not rare
A billion were struck, so a steel cent is worth about a dollar. The 1943 penny worth six figures is the one made of copper by mistake, and a magnet settles it in a second.
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The Shield Nickel, and why apps keep getting it wrong
The first US five-cent piece in nickel ran from 1866 to 1883, carries no date most identifiers can find, and is routinely mistaken for the three-cent piece that shares its look.
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Morgan Dollar values, and the four things that set them
A common Morgan Dollar is worth its silver plus a premium, roughly $69 to $101. Date, mint mark, strike and surface decide whether yours is common.
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Bicentennial quarter value, and the 1776-1976 date that confuses everyone
Over 1.6 billion were struck, so a Bicentennial quarter from change is worth 25 cents. The silver ones came in collector sets and never circulated.
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Are state quarters worth anything?
Fifty designs, ten years, and about 34 billion coins. Face value for almost all of them, with a short list of errors that genuinely sell.
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Kennedy half dollar value: which years are silver
1964 is 90% silver, 1965 to 1970 are 40%, and everything after is clad. The one nobody checks is the 1967 in a coin jar.
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Mercury dime value, and the one date worth a car
A common Mercury dime is worth about its silver, six to ten dollars. The 1916-D is worth a hundred times that, and it is the most faked dime in America.
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Peace dollar value, and how it differs from a Morgan
A common Peace dollar is worth about $67 to $90, mostly silver. The 1928 and the high-relief 1921 are the two dates that carry real premiums.
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Old British coins explained: pounds, shillings and pence
Twelve pence to a shilling, twenty shillings to a pound, and a florin is two shillings. What the pre-decimal coins were, and which of them are silver.
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