| Old coins that is. Try looking under that old | | | | circulated between the years 1878 and 1935, are |
| dresser, or up the attic where grandma or | | | | worth between twelve dollars and twenty five |
| grandpa's things may be stashed away patiently | | | | dollars for the circulated coins. The coins that |
| waiting for you to discover them. Who knows, | | | | were not in circulation are worth considerably |
| you might find a coin there, an old coin that - at | | | | more. |
| today's rate - may be worth a few dollars; | | | | Meantime, those quarters, dimes, or half dollar |
| probably three or four or five, even ten times | | | | coins made and circulated prior to 1965, are |
| what the coin was worth back then. | | | | usually made out of ninety percent silver and |
| A penny a day, is worth okay | | | | therefore worth as much as today's silver (with |
| Fortunately or unfortunately, there was a | | | | an additional premium, albeit small, put on the |
| shortage of copper during the year 1943 and all | | | | coin's face value). |
| pennies made at that time were minted using | | | | Wrong pennies are right |
| steel. There were however, some Lincoln pennies | | | | There is a Lincoln penny issued in 1972 on which |
| that were incorrectly minted on bronze that | | | | the date and the letters on it appear to have |
| turned out to be blanks. A few years - or | | | | been doubled. This rare coin is currently worth |
| decades later -these bronze pennies became a | | | | about sixty dollars, assuming the pennies are in |
| rarity and are valuable. The steel ones though, | | | | standard condition. The Philadelphia Mint during that |
| because of their commonality, are worth only | | | | time period accidentally misaligned the die used in |
| between one to three dollars each. | | | | minting the coins causing the portrait of Lincoln to |
| Be aware and be wary as there are schemes | | | | look like it was doubled. Fortunately or |
| where gullible coin collectors are sold coins that | | | | unfortunately, eighty thousand of these were |
| are copper plated in an attempt to make these | | | | circulated before the error was discovered. |
| pennies appear to be bronze. Also, keep your | | | | In summary, coin collecting is similar to collecting |
| guard up anytime someone offers you a circa | | | | bits of history and trivia from the past. In addition |
| 1943 penny made out of a metallic white alloy. | | | | to the face value its worth as a treasure - |
| Old coins are good coins | | | | pennies, dimes and coins - often are worth more |
| Coins, specifically the silver dollars made and | | | | in the long run. |