Designers, mints and the stories behind the designs.
Most Lincoln wheat cents are worth well under a dollar. Learn which dates, mint marks and errors actually carry premiums, and how to check real prices.
What to do with a worn coin, how currency gets sorted and retired, and when a beat-up find is still worth keeping in your collection.
Beginners often misread mint marks, look in the wrong spot, or assume a letter means a coin is rare. Here is how to find and interpret them correctly.
Five common Buffalo nickel mistakes, from why dates wore away to what the 1937-D Three-Legged variety is really worth, explained for beginner collectors.
Learn where Mint engravers hid their initials on U.S. coins, from the famous V.D.B. on the Lincoln cent to modern designs, and how to read them yourself.